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AP Learning Psychology Unit Goals
AP Course Description
Terms
• Distinguish general differences between principles of classical conditioning, classical conditioning
operant conditioning, and observational learning (e.g., contingencies).
stimulus
response
• Describe basic classical conditioning phenomena, such as acquisition,
unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
extinction,
unconditioned response (UCR)
spontaneous recovery, generalization, discrimination, and higher-order
conditioned stimulus (CS)
learning.
conditioned response (CR)
acquisition
• Provide examples of how biological constraints create learning
extinction
predispositions.
spontaneous recovery
generalization
• Apply learning principles to explain emotional learning, taste aversion,
discrimination
superstitious behavior, and learned helplessness.
behaviorism
cognition
• Identify key contributors in the psychology of learning (e.g., John Garcia,
Ivan Pavlov, Robert Rescorla, John Watson).
Ivan Pavlov
John Watson
Rosalie Rayner
John Garcia
Robert Rescorla
AP Course Description
Terms
• Distinguish general differences between principles of classical
reinforcement
conditioning,
punishment
operant conditioning, and observational learning (e.g., contingencies).
positive reinforcement
negative reinforcement
• Predict the effects of operant conditioning (e.g., positive reinforcement,
primary reinforcement
negative
secondary reinforcement
reinforcement, punishment, schedules of reinforcement).
shaping
discrimination
• Predict how practice, schedules of reinforcement, and motivation will
extinction
influence
continuous reinforcement
quality of learning.
partial schedule
fixed-interval schedule
• Interpret graphs that exhibit the results of learning experiments.
variable-interval schedule
fixed-ratio schedule
• Identify key contributors in the psychology of learning (e.g., B. F. Skinner,
variable-ratio schedule
Edward Thorndike,
latent learning
Edward Tolman).
cognitive map
overjustification effect
• Distinguish general differences between principles of classical
conditioning,
operant conditioning, and observational learning (e.g., contingencies).
• Describe the essential characteristics of insight learning, latent learning, and
social learning.
• Identify key contributors in the psychology of learning (e.g., Albert
Bandura).
Edward Thorndike
B. F. Skinner
Edward Tolman
observational learning
model
modeling
mirror neurons
antisocial behavior
prosocial behavior
vicarious learning
insight learning
latent learning
social learning
Albert Bandura