Learning and Conditioning Unit Test Review

Front

What term is defined as "decreases in the frequency of a behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced"?

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extinction (operant conditioning)

Front

What is the process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others called?

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discrimination (classical conditioning)

Front

What is the term for the reinforcement of a response by the addition or experiencing of a pleasurable stimulus?

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positive reinforcement

Front

What is the process called where reinforcement of individual responses occurring in a sequence to form a complex behavior (breaking down a complex task into parts)?

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chaining (operant conditioning)

Front

In operant conditioning, a schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed is known as what?

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fixed-interval schedule

Front

What is the term for increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs?

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negative reinforcement

Front

In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS) is known as what?

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conditioned response (CR)

Front

What type of learning involves an organism learning to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events?

Back

classical conditioning

Front

What is the term for the tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns?

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Instinctive drift

Front

In operant conditioning, what is the schedule that reinforces a response at unpredictable time intervals?

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Variable-interval schedule