Psychology 2301 Collin College -General Psychology 2301 Chapter 6

Psychology 2301 Collin College -General Psychology 2301 Chapter 6Learning - correct answer Systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience Behaviorism - correct answer A theory of learning that focuses solely on observable behaviors, discounting the importance of mental activity such as thinking, wishing and hoping. Types of learning - correct answer Associative learning and Observational learning Associative learning - correct answer Learning that occurs when an organism makes a connection, or an association, between two events. Conditioning - correct answer Process of learning associations. Types of Conditioning - correct answer Classical and operant (studeid by behaviorists). Observational Learning - correct answer Learning that occurs through observing and imitating another's behavior and requires mental processes: attention, remember, reproduce model. Classical Conditioning - correct answer Organism learn the association between two stimuli, learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an innately meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response. Pavlov's Classical Conditioning - correct answer Nutral stimulus (bell) presented just before the undontioned stimulus (food) become conditioned stimulus by pairing with unconditioned stimulus and elicited conditioned resonse (dog's salivation). Unconditioned stimulus (US) - correct answer Stimulus that produces a response without prior learning