LEARNING

1. operant conditioning - a type of leanring in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminshed if followed by a punisher

2. reinforcer - any event that strengthens the behavior it follows

3. shaping - an operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior

4. law of effect - a principle that says that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely

5. respondent behavior - behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

6. operant behavior - behavior that operates on the environment producing consequences

7. observational learning - learning by observing others

8. modeling - the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

9. Edward Thorndike

10. puzzle box experiment

11. What is the best learning style when raising / teaching kids?

12. associative learning - learning that certain events occur together

13. classical conditioning - a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli

14. discrimination - the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

15. generalization - the tendency for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

16. acquisition - the initial stage in classical conditioning

17. extinction - the diminishing of a conditioned response

18. spontaneous recovery - the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response

19. behaviorism - the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes

20. John Watson

21. "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It"

22. methodological behaviorism

23. radical behaviorism

24. Pavlov

25. Little Albert Experiment

26. types of behaviorism

27. salivating dogs experiment