PSYC 3083 Midterm: Study Guide For Exam III (Got A+ on the test)
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Learning change in behavior due to experience. Social learning behavior is learned and maintained through imitation (modeling) Positive consequences and cognitive processes such as expectations. Observational learning learning new responses by observing vs. experience: behaviorism emphasizes the study of observable behavior and role of environment as determinant of behavior, conditioning association between environmental stimuli and responses to organism"s responses. Unconditioned (unlearned), conditioned (learned) unconditioned stimulus elicits unconditioned responses. Conditioned stimulus neutral stimulus that comes to conditioned responses after being paired with unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response provoked by conditioned stimulus: classical conditioning primitive, reflexive (elicited) previous neutral stimulus acquires response through association with a stimulus that already has a similar response (pavlov, principles. Money does not have value to a child, they are taught through allowance or play money. Stimulus generalization stimuli similar to cs may create similar responses. Example: child learns to respect police in uniform, now respects firemen in uniform.
