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Habituation
Decreasing responsiveness with
repeated stimulation
You yell too often, it stops working. Students
start tuning you out.
Classical Conditioning Terms
Acquisition: Learning to pair a behavior with its consequence.
Extinction: When a particular behavior stops being paired with a consequence.
Spontaneous Recovery: Returning to a behavior for which you are no longer reinforced.
Generalization: Assuming that similar behaviors will also generate the same consequence.
Discrimination: Knowing which behaviors will generate a consequence and which won’t.
Discriminatory Stimulus: A stimulus, in advance, that lets you know what consequence will occur
Cognition
Latent Learning: Even when not being
reinforced/punished, you are learning.
Overjustification Effect: Providing extrinsic rewards
for an activity that you are intrinsically motivated
reduces your intrinsic motivation to do that
behavior.
Biological Predispositions
• Instinctive Drift: Tendency to revert back to
biologically predisposed patterns.
Reinforcement works best with naturally
occurring behaviors.
*Much easier to learn to do behaviors that help us survive*