General Psychology Final Exam Review
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LEARNING - ✔✔a relatively enduring change in behavior or thinking that results
from experience
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔learning process in which two stimuli become
associated with each other; when an originally natural stimulus is conditioned
to elicit an involuntary response.
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Is a learning process in which behavior is sensitive,
or controlled by, its consequences.
Observational Learning - ✔✔is a type of learning most associated with the work
and social learning theory of psychologist Albert Bandura.
Habituation - ✔✔is a psychological learning process wherein there is a decrease
in response to a stimulus after being repeatedly exposed to it. This concept
states that an animal or a human amy learn to ignore a stimulus because or
repeated exposure to it.
Neutral Stimulus - ✔✔is a stimulus which initially produces no specific response
other than focusing attention. In classical conditioning, when used together
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,with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned
stimulus.
Unconditioned Stimulus - ✔✔a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response;
for example, food is ab unconditioned stimulus for a hungry animal, and
salivation is the unconditioned response.
Unconditioned Response - ✔✔is a behavior that occurs naturally due to a given
stimulus. However, a stimulus prompts a conditioned response only when
someone has come to associate that stimulus with another. Ex: when a person
yelps upon being bitten by an insect, the yelp is an unconditioned response.
Conditioned Stimulus - ✔✔a previously neutral stimulus that, after repeated
association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits the response produced by
the unconditioned stimulus itself
Conditioned Response - ✔✔an automatic response established by training to an
ordinarily neutral stimulus.
Identify factors that can affect the strength of a classically conditioned
response, and give examples of generalization and discrimination: -
✔✔extinction- the diminished conditioned response when the unconditioned
response no longer follows the conditioned stimulus generalization- infants can
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, tell difference between their mothers voice and another woman discrimination-
when a dog is conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell he will also salivate
to the sound of a door bell.
Explain how extinction, and spontaneous recovery work in classical
conditioning: - ✔✔extinction- the diminished conditioned response when the
unconditioned response no longer follows the conditioned stimulus
Describe the basic principles of behaviorism: - ✔✔the view that psychology
should be an objective science, studies behaviors without taking mental
processes into account
Describe Watson and Rayner's famous "Little Albert" study, and explain how
emotional responses can be classically conditioned: - ✔✔Watson and a
colleague, Raynor, conditioned a baby to associate white rats with a loud noise
and fear them.
Discuss Edwards Thorndyke's contributions to the study of learning, and define
the law of effect: - ✔✔Placed cats in a puzzle box with a food reward outside
the box
Recorded the amount of time that it took them to figure out how to escape
Concluded that rewarded behavior is likely to recur, which he called the law of
effect.
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Guaranteed Pass
LEARNING - ✔✔a relatively enduring change in behavior or thinking that results
from experience
Classical Conditioning - ✔✔learning process in which two stimuli become
associated with each other; when an originally natural stimulus is conditioned
to elicit an involuntary response.
Operant Conditioning - ✔✔Is a learning process in which behavior is sensitive,
or controlled by, its consequences.
Observational Learning - ✔✔is a type of learning most associated with the work
and social learning theory of psychologist Albert Bandura.
Habituation - ✔✔is a psychological learning process wherein there is a decrease
in response to a stimulus after being repeatedly exposed to it. This concept
states that an animal or a human amy learn to ignore a stimulus because or
repeated exposure to it.
Neutral Stimulus - ✔✔is a stimulus which initially produces no specific response
other than focusing attention. In classical conditioning, when used together
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,with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned
stimulus.
Unconditioned Stimulus - ✔✔a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response;
for example, food is ab unconditioned stimulus for a hungry animal, and
salivation is the unconditioned response.
Unconditioned Response - ✔✔is a behavior that occurs naturally due to a given
stimulus. However, a stimulus prompts a conditioned response only when
someone has come to associate that stimulus with another. Ex: when a person
yelps upon being bitten by an insect, the yelp is an unconditioned response.
Conditioned Stimulus - ✔✔a previously neutral stimulus that, after repeated
association with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits the response produced by
the unconditioned stimulus itself
Conditioned Response - ✔✔an automatic response established by training to an
ordinarily neutral stimulus.
Identify factors that can affect the strength of a classically conditioned
response, and give examples of generalization and discrimination: -
✔✔extinction- the diminished conditioned response when the unconditioned
response no longer follows the conditioned stimulus generalization- infants can
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, tell difference between their mothers voice and another woman discrimination-
when a dog is conditioned to salivate to the sound of a bell he will also salivate
to the sound of a door bell.
Explain how extinction, and spontaneous recovery work in classical
conditioning: - ✔✔extinction- the diminished conditioned response when the
unconditioned response no longer follows the conditioned stimulus
Describe the basic principles of behaviorism: - ✔✔the view that psychology
should be an objective science, studies behaviors without taking mental
processes into account
Describe Watson and Rayner's famous "Little Albert" study, and explain how
emotional responses can be classically conditioned: - ✔✔Watson and a
colleague, Raynor, conditioned a baby to associate white rats with a loud noise
and fear them.
Discuss Edwards Thorndyke's contributions to the study of learning, and define
the law of effect: - ✔✔Placed cats in a puzzle box with a food reward outside
the box
Recorded the amount of time that it took them to figure out how to escape
Concluded that rewarded behavior is likely to recur, which he called the law of
effect.
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