AP Psych: Learning Vocab

Acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors

• Learning that certain events occur together
• The events may be two stimuli

• Learning that certain events occur together
• The events may be a response and its consequences

Any event or situation that evokes a response

• The acquisition of mental information formed by:
•  -Observing events
•  -watching others
•  -through language

• Type of learning
• One learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events

• View that psychology should be
•  -an objective science 
•  -that studies behavior without reference to mental processes

• Classical Conditioning
• Stimulus that gets no response before conditioning

• Classical Conditioning
• An unlearned naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

• Classical Conditioning
• Stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response

• Classical Conditioning
• Learned response to a previously neutral, but now conditioned stimulus

• Classical Conditioning 
• Originally irrelevant stimulus that,after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response

The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins trigger the conditioned response

The strengthening of a reinforced response

Second-Order Conditioning

• Procedure
• The conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is pair with a new neutral stimulus creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.

• The diminishing of a conditioned response
• Occurs when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus

• The diminishing of a conditioned response 
• Occurs when a response is no longer reinforced

The tendency once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to get similar responses

• Classical Conditioning
• Learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and a stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus