Unit 4 Vocab

the process of acquiring, through experience, new and relatively enduring information and behaviors

• habituation

• learning

• operant behavior

• stimulus

  Decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus

• Stimulus

• Learning

• Habituation

• Respondent

Learning that certain events occur together.  The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequence

• Respondent

• Associative

• Operant

• Stimulus

Any event or situation that evokes a response

• Learning

• Stimulus

• Habituation

• Respondent

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

• Stimulus

• Operant

• Cognitive

• Respondent

Behavior that operated on the environment producing consequences

• Respondent

• Habituation

• Cognitive

• Operant

The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through languages

• Cognitive Learning

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

• Respondent Learning

The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.  (

• Acquisition

• Generalization

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Operant Base

Procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.

• Acquisition

• Higher-Order Conditioning

• Cognitive Learning

• Operant Conditioning

The reappearance, after a pause,  of an extinguished conditioned response

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Insight