Chapter and Topic of this Review Guide: Chapter 7- Learning
Vocab Term
Learning
Associative
Learning
Behaviorism
Classical
Conditioning
Unconditioned
Response
Unconditioned
Stimuli
Conditioned
Response
Conditioned
Stimuli
Acquisition
Extinction
Spontaneous
recovery
Generalization
Discrimination
Definition of Term
The adduction of knowledge to change
ones behavior or reflexes
Learning certain events go together
Example
Learning snakes are bad so you are afraid of
snakes from now on
Little Albert: White animal and Loud Gong
Study of behavior without referring to Watson did not refer to mental process
mental process
Action taken due to natural reflex
Babies spread out extremities when falling
Mental response to unconditioned
stimulus
Natural trigger to response
People afraid of being sick
Sickness
Learned response to previously neutral Sick when you eat burritos
stimuli
Irrelevant trigger
Sick one time when you ate a burrito so now
you feel sick when you see burritos
Initial stage of linking stimuli
When Little Albert first found correlation
between gong and rabbit
Diminishing of conditioned response Pavlov’s dog does not salivate after enough
times of the bell without food
Reappearance of response after a pause
An idea someone has about a certain
type of something
Ability to distinguish between
conditioned and irrelevant response
Little Albert fears all white fuzzy things
instead of just rabbit
Shaping
Guiding behavior to achieve a certain
behavior associated with stimuli
Primary
reinforcers
Secondary
reinforcers
Punishment
Reinforcement for biological needs
Give a bird food when it turns left and
the bird will eventually turn left in circles
to receive food
Food, Water
Reinforcement for non biological needs
Toys, approval
Giving something to someone in turn
for their action
Learning that occurs bout is not present
until demonstrated
Learning by watching others perform
tasks
Giving a slap in the face(Positive)
Taking away toy(Negative)
How to throw ball after seeing it many
times but never attempting
Kids watch their parents react to certain
foods or situations
Latent Learning
Observational
Learning
Modeling
Learned
Helplessness
Observing and imitating
One stops trying to stop pain with
failure to stop it in the past
Overjustification Providing a reward for something we
Effect
already like to do
Cognitive Map
Mental representation of the layout of
ones environment
Monkey see monkey do
Dogs shocked in boxes, some with the
ability to stop and others not
We like playing basketball but get
money, you like money more b-ball less
Your cognitive map would consist of
your house
Authors of
Basic of What Was Done
Important
Study
Albert Bandura Kids watched adults with aggression, then were put into a room
with toys and chose to hit a large doll “Bobo Doll”
Pavlov
Dog salivates when it hears a bell because the bell is associated
with food to become a conditioned stimuli
Skinner
Rat in box hit a bar for food, and learn that food comes out of the
bar after being rewarded for certain actions to help the rat learn
to hit the bar
Thorndike
He found that behavior is more likely to be continued with
favorable consequences than less likely
John Watson
Gave a young boy a white fuzzy animal and when he did also hit
a very loud gong, so the boy learned that when he saw a white
fuzzy animal that something bad would happen
Name of Important Person
Albert Bandura
Pavlov
Skinner
Thorndike
John Watson
What this person is known for
Bobo Doll
Dog and Bell
Skinner Box
Law of effect
Little Albert/ Father of Behaviorism
Lesson(s) learned
from the study
Observational
Learning
Conditioning
Shaping
Law of effect
Associative learning
Impact on Psychology
Observational Learning
Conditioning
Shaping
Law of effect
Associative Learning