PSYCH101 Midterm: Second midterm studying (Learning, Wanting/Doing, Developmental)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

A random stimulus will not trigger anything: during conditioning, neural stimulus gets connected to the originally unconditioned stimulus, this is the association period, neural stimulus (ex. bell) + unconditioned stimulus (ex. Give treat to dog right after trick is performed: discrimination: responding to certain stimuli over others, ex. Dog runs to door when hears owner"s car, but ignores others cars: extinction: weakening of conditioned response in absence of unconditioned stimulus, ex. The consistent presentation of the conditioned stimulus alone without unconditioned stimulus: spontaneous recovery: conditioned response can recur after time delay without further conditioning, ex. Encourages children to do more chores: negative: frequency of behaviour increase when stimulus is removed, ex. Immediate reinforcers/delayed reinforcers: punishment*********, when a behaviour is decreased **** by the outcomes that follow it, positive: when an unpleasant stimulus is added in an effort to decrease an undesirable behaviour, ex.