Learning

Learning

1. a relatively permanant change in an organisms behavior due to experience

2. Associative Learning

   • Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and it's consequences (as in operant conditioning)

3. Classical Conditioning

   • a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli, A neural stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus.

4. Operant Conditioning

   • a type of learning in which behavior is strenghtend if followed by a reinforcer or diminshed if followed by a punisher

5. Acquisition

   • the initial stage in classical conditioning; the phase associating a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response.In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response

6. Extinction

   • The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in opperant conditioning when a response is no longer enforced

7. Spontaneous Generalization

   • Once a response has been conditioned, stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimus elicit certain responses

8. Discrimination

   • in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

9. shaping

   • an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior