PS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psych, Drug Tolerance, Assertiveness
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Encouragement is better than discouragement: rewards and punishment, knowledge of results, stress. Learn about things you are interested in. Learning: relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations. 11% prevalence rate of simple lifetime phobias: can be treated, acquisition of knowledge and skills, shapes personal habits, personality traits, emotional responses, personal preferences, can be done by most organisms. Conditioning: learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. What they have in common: acquisition of the cr, extinction of the ucs, spontaneous recovery, reconditioning, generalization, discrimination, higher order conditioning, response =habit x drive- inhibition. Schedules of reinforcement: schedule of reinforcement, determines the occurrences of a specific response result in the presentation of a reinforcer, continuous reinforcement. Applications of learning theory: phobia, irrational fear of something, simple phobia. Body is punished for a behaviour: punishment training. What is important sorted into long term.
