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5381230681 | learning | a relative permanent change due to an organisms behavior due to experience. | 0 | |
5385327194 | classical conditioning | a type of leaning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events | 1 | |
5385328409 | behaviorism | The view that psychology 1) should be an objective science that 2)studies behavior without reference to metal processes. Psychologists today agree with number one | 2 | |
5385334707 | unconditioned response | an automatic response to stimulus | 3 | |
5385342623 | unconditioned stimulus | a stimulus that causes a response that is automatic, not learned | 4 | |
5385344513 | conditioned response | the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus | 5 | |
5385350219 | conditioned stimulus | a stimulus that causes a response that is learned | 6 | |
5385366595 | habituation | an organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it | 7 | |
5385368866 | associative learning | learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences | 8 | |
5385372997 | generalization | occurs when people respond in the same way to similar stimuli | 9 | |
5385375623 | discrimination | the act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar | 10 | |
5385377033 | learned helpessness | a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness | 11 | |
5385380730 | acquisition | it refers to the period when the stimulus comes to evoke the conditioned response | 12 | |
5385386709 | higher-order conditioning | the use of a previously conditioned stimulus to condition further responses, in much the same way unconditioned stimuli are used | 13 | |
5385390093 | extinction | occurs when the conditioned stimulus is disconnected from the unconditioned stimulus | 14 | |
5385392327 | spontaneous recovery | the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response | 15 |