Learning

6. People and animals can learn to associate neutral stimuli with stimuli that produce reflexive, involuntary responses and will learn to respond similarly to the new stimulus as they did to the old one.
8. the removal of something pleasant
10. AKA omission training, the removal of something pleasant.
16. One of the first people to research operant conditioning. Conducted series of famous experiments using a cat in a puzzle box.
17. Performed a famous experiment illustrating how rats more readily learned to make certain associations than others.
19. the addition of something unpleasant
20. Russian psychologist, deduced the basic principle of classical conditioning
21. if the consequences of a behavior are pleasant, the stimulus response connection will be strengthened and the likelihood of the behavior will increase.
22. rewarding a behavior each time
23. rewarding, include things like food, water, and rest, whose natural properties are reinforcing.
24. the addition of something pleasant
25. Helped to condition a little boy named Albert to fear a white rat through aversive conditioning.

1. Once the animals respond to the CS without a presentation of the US. The animals have acquired a new behavior.
2. reinforces the steps used to reach the desired behavior. Rewarding approximations of the desired behavior.
3. if the consequences of a behavior are pleasant, the stimulus response will be strengthened and the likelihood of the behavior will increase.
4. Being taught to perform a number of responses successively in order to get a reward. Goal is to link together a number of separate behaviors into a more complex activity
5. a special kind of secondary reinforcer: money, which can be traded for almost anything.
7. If you ingest an unusual food or drink and then become nauseous, you will probably develop an aversion to the food or drink.
9. conditioned a little boy named Albert to fear a white rat through aversive conditioning
11. Conditioned to have a negative response to something.
12. things we have learned to value such as praise or the chance to play a video game.
13. Performed a famous experiment illustrating how rats more readily learned to make certain associations than others.
14. every time people perform a desired behavior, they are given a token. Periodically, they are allowed to trade their tokens for any one of a variety of reinforcers.
15. the removal of something unpleasant
18. The tendency for animals to forgo rewards to pursue their typical patterns of behavior.