PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Existentialism, Morpheme
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Cs: extinction eventually start to diminish, spontaneous recovery spontaneously recovers, stimulus generalization generalization, stimulus discrimination do not signal a us. ****difference between operant and classical conditioning: classical conditioning forms associations between stimuli, operant conditioning forms associations between behaviors and resulting events, operant conditioning, involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to consequence, law of effect: (thorndike) principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences, skinner developed operant chamber/skinner box, reinforcement: any event that increases the future probability a behavior will occur (strengthens behavior it follows, primary reinforce: innately reinforcing stimulus like food or drink, conditioned reinforce: is a learned reinforcer. Immediate effect of suppressing behavior: does not teach appropriate behavior, avoidance/escape, anxiety, models aggression, teaches discrimination among situations, what happens when the learner has no control over when punishment is give, learned helplessness a breakdown in learning ability caused by repeated exposure to uncontrollable aversive events.
