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| 8234974428 | learning | a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience | 0 | |
| 8234974429 | Law of Physics | for every force, or action there is an equal and opposite force, or reaction | 1 | |
| 8234974430 | respondant behavior | behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus | 2 | |
| 8234974431 | operant behavior | behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences | 3 | |
| 8234974432 | operant chamber | a chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a food or water reinforcer | 4 | |
| 8234974433 | Habituation | An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it | 5 | |
| 8234974434 | associative learning | learning that certain events occur together | 6 | |
| 8234974435 | Reinforcement | An event following a response that strengthens the tendency to make that response. | 7 | |
| 8234974436 | cognitive map | a mental representation of the layout of one's environment | 8 | |
| 8234974437 | latent learning | learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it | 9 | |
| 8234974438 | Shaping | Learning that results from the reinforcement of successive steps to a final desired behavior | 10 | |
| 8234974439 | Stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react | 11 | |
| 8234974440 | cognitive learning | storing and recalling of new knowledge in the brain | 12 | |
| 8234974441 | discriminitive stimulus | a specific stimulus in the presence of which a particular response | 13 | |
| 8234974442 | insight | a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem | 14 | |
| 8234974443 | intrinsic motivation | a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake | 15 | |
| 8234974444 | positive reinforcement | increasing behaviors by presenting positive reinforcers | 16 | |
| 8234974445 | classical conditioning | a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events | 17 | |
| 8234974446 | Behaviorism | an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | 18 | |
| 8234974447 | negative reinforcement | increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing negative stimuli | 19 | |
| 8234974448 | extrinsic motivation | a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment | 20 | |
| 8234974449 | Coping | alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods | 21 | |
| 8234974450 | primary reinforcer | an innately reinforcing stimulus, such as one that satisfies a biological need | 22 | |
| 8234974451 | neutral stimulus (NS) | in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning | 23 | |
| 8234974452 | unconditioned response | in conditioning the behavior elicited by the unconditioned stimulus | 24 | |
| 8234974453 | reinforcement schedule | a pattern that defines how often a desired response will be reinforced | 25 | |
| 8234974454 | emotion-focused coping | a type of coping in which people try to prevent having an emotional response to a stressor | 26 | |
| 8234974455 | problem focused coping | a type of coping in which people take direct steps to confront or minimize a stressor | 27 | |
| 8234974456 | learned helplessness | lack of motivation to avoid unpleasant stimuli after one has failed before to escape similar stimuli | 28 | |
| 8234974457 | external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate | 29 | |
| 8234974458 | internal locus of control | the perception that you control your own fate | 30 | |
| 8234974459 | self control | the ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for greater long term rewards | 31 | |
| 8234974460 | observational learning | learning by observing others | 32 | |
| 8234974461 | Modeling | the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior | 33 | |
| 8234974462 | mirror neurons | frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so | 34 | |
| 8234974463 | prosocial behavior | positive, constructive, helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior | 35 | |
| 8234974464 | Biofeedback | The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled | 36 | |
| 8234974465 | punishment | an event that decreases the behavior that it follows | 37 | |
| 8234974466 | variable interval schedule | a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals | 38 | |
| 8234974467 | fixed interval schedule | a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed | 39 | |
| 8234974468 | variable ratio schedule | a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable number of responses | 40 | |
| 8234974469 | fixed ratio schedule | pattern in which we provide reinforcement following a regular number of responses | 41 | |
| 8234974470 | partial reinforcement | reinforcing a response only part of the time | 42 | |
| 8234974471 | continuous reinforcement | reinforcing the desired response every time it occurs | 43 | |
| 8234974472 | operant conditioning | Learning based on the consequences of responding. | 44 | |
| 8234974473 | Discrimination | Behaving differently, usually unfairly, toward the members of a group. | 45 | |
| 8234974474 | gerneralization | the tendency to respond in the same way to stimuli that have similar characteristics | 46 | |
| 8234974475 | spontaneous recovery | the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response | 47 | |
| 8234974476 | Extinction | A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals. | 48 | |
| 8234974477 | higher order conditioning | learning in which stimuli associated with a conditioned stimulus also elicit conditioned responses | 49 | |
| 8234974478 | acquisition | an ability that has been acquired by training | 50 | |
| 8234974479 | conditioned stimulus | a stimulus that elicits a response only after learning has taken place | 51 | |
| 8234974480 | conditioned response | in classical conditioning, the response elicited by the conditioned stimulus | 52 | |
| 8234974481 | unconditioned stimulus | A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning | 53 |
