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Crash Course #11 – How to Train a Brain
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Behaviorism: an empirically rigorous science focused on ___________________
behaviors and not unobservable _______________________ mental processes.
Learning: the process of ____________________, through
_____________________, new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is a neutral stimuli?
Associative Learning: when a subject ____________ certain events, behaviors,
or stimuli together in process of ___________________.
Unconditioned or ________________________ response
Describe the acquisition phase of conditioning:
Conditioned or ____________________ response.
Classical Conditioning: a type of ________________ in which one learns to link
______________ or more stimuli and anticipate events.
B.F. ______________ and John B. ________________
Behaviorists argued psychology was all about ______________________ and
___________________ behavior.
John B. Watson and the experiment known as ____________________ Albert.
Operant Conditioning: a type of learning in which behavior is
_________________ if followed by a _____________________ or diminished if
followed by a _______________________.
Skinner ______________________.
Positive Reinforcement: a stimulus that, when presented after a response,
____________________ the response.
Shaping: an ______________________ conditioning procedure in which
reinforcers guide behavior towards closer and closer approximations of the
___________________ behavior.
Successive Approximations:
Negative Reinforcement: any stimulus that, when ___________________ after a
response, _________________ the response.
Negative reinforcement is not the same as ___________________.
Primary Reinforcer: an __________________ reinforcing stimulus, such as one
that satisfies a _________________________ need.
Conditioned Reinforcer: a stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its
association with a _____________________ reinforcer.
Reinforcement Schedule: a _________________ that defines how often a
desired ________________ will be reinforced.
Define the following:
o Extinction:
o Partial (intermittent) reinforcement: