Conditioning & Learning

6 important questions on Conditioning & Learning

Conditioned compensatory response (learned tolerance)

taking drugs in an environment such as with friends (conditioned stimulus) your body builds a tolerance BUT when you later take is alone you have a higher likelihood of overdosing because the (CS-friends) is absent. Theres no conditioned compensatory response lessening the effect of the drug.

Reinforcers _______ behavior and punishes _______ behavior

increase decrease

Fixed ratio schedule

reinforcing a behavior after that behavior has occurred a predetermined number of times
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Law of effect (thorndike)

any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be stopped.

Insight vs. latent learning

-in latent learning the organism learns the behavior without intending to, and it is not done with the intent of obtaining information (kind of passive),

Insight learning is a type of learning or problem solving that happens all-of-a-sudden through understanding the relationships various parts of a problem rather than through trial and error

4 parts of "social learning theory" aka observational learning

1. attention
2 retention
3 initiation
4 motivation

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