Key Terminology

2. imitating the behavior of someone.
5. an intense fear that prevents ‘normal living’ in some way.
7. the tendency to learn some associations more easily, quickly and permanently than others.
8. the loss of a classically conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeated many times without the unconditioned stimulus.
9. when a conditioned response is produced to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.
10. learning through the positive consequences of other people’s actions rather than firsthand – we are more likely to copy if they are rewarded.

1. a learning process which builds up an association between the two stimuli through repeated pairings.
3. what we are born with.
4. the link between the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus that make the neutral stimulus cause the same response.
6. a research method using written questions.
11. what we learn from the way we are raised.