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SOLVED (Newest 2025) The relatively permanent or stable change in behavior as the result of experience - Correct Answers ✅Learning This man suggested the law of effect, precursor of operant conditioning. - Correct Answers ✅E.L. Thorndike E.L. Thorndike's idea that postulated a cause-and-effect chain of behavior revolving around reinforcement. Any behavior that is followed by reward is likely to be repeated. One followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be stopped.
- Correct Answers ✅Law of Effect
This man developed the theory of association, forerunner of behaviorism. - Correct Answers ✅Kurt Lewin Organisms associate certain behaviors with certain rewards and certain cues with certain situations. Precursor to Pavlov's Classical Conditioning. - Correct Answers ✅Theory of Association He is famous for work on digestion. Developed Classical Conditioning. - Correct Answers ✅Ivan Pavlov A concept that involves teaching an organism to respond to a neutral stimulus by pairing the neutral stimulus with a not-so- 1 / 4
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) neutral stimulus. - Correct Answers ✅Classical/ Pavlovian Conditioning He founded the school of behaviorism. He believed that everything can be explained by stimulus-response chains and that conditioning was the key factor in developing these chains. ONLY OBJECTIVE and OBSERVABLE elements were of importance to organisms and psychology. - Correct Answers ✅John B. Watson This man developed operant conditioning. - Correct Answers ✅B.F. Skinner This concept of behavior being influenced primarily by reinforcement. The Skinner Box was used to develop this
idea: to condition rats to perform an unnatural behavior--
pressing the lever in the skinner box. - Correct Answers ✅Operant Conditioning/ Instrumental Conditioning A stimulus that does not produce a specific response on its own. - Correct Answers ✅Neutral Stimulus Without conditioning, this stimulus elicits a response. - Correct Answers ✅Unconditioned Stimulus 2 / 4
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) The neutral stimulus once it has been paired with the UCS. - Correct Answers ✅Conditioned Stimulus The naturally occurring response to the UCS. - Correct Answers ✅Unconditioned Response The response that the CS elicits after conditioning. Often times, it is the same as the UCR. - Correct Answers ✅Conditioned Response A conditioning technique where the UCS and the CS are presented at the same time. - Correct Answers ✅Simultaneous Conditioning A conditioning technique in which a previous CS now acts as a UCS. - Correct Answers ✅Higher Order/ Second-Oder Conditioning A conditioning technique in which the CS is presented before the UCS - Correct Answers ✅Forward Conditioning The presentation of the CS begins before that of the UCs and lasts until the UCS is presented. - Correct Answers ✅Delayed Conditioning 3 / 4
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SOLVED (Newest 2025) The CS stimulus is presented and terminated before the UCS is presented. - Correct Answers ✅Trace Conditioning A conditioning technique in which the CS is presented after the UCS is presented. It proves to be ineffective. Produces an inhibitory conditioning effect. - Correct Answers ✅Backward Conditioning A process where the experimenter gradually molds an organism by reinforcing any responses similar to the desired response. - Correct Answers ✅Shaping/ Differential Reinforcement of Successive Approximations Something that is reinforcing on its own without the requirement of learning. Ex. Water and Food. - Correct Answers ✅Primary Reinforcement A learned reinforcer, often learned through society. Ex. Money
- Correct Answers ✅Secondary Reinforcement
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A type of reward or positive event acting as a stimulus that increases the likelihood of a particular response. - Correct Answers ✅Positive Reinforcement