conditioning
operant conditioning
repeating behaviors based on outcome
punishment
event that creates likelihood that a behavior will be stopped
jakob loves to run because he feels so fantastic afterward. in fact, whenever he wants a runner's high—- that feeling of elation after a lengthy run—- he has learned to go for eight laps around the high school track. jakob keeps this habit up for years because he likes the outcome he gets each time. what does this demonstrate?
jakob is operantly conditioned
jackson is an aggressive little kid, and his mom wants him to stop banging his trucks against the furniture. mother tells jackson that if he download stop banging the trucks, he'll lose his play time immediately. what is this an example of
negative punishment
classical conditioning requires ________.
the pairing of two stimuli
what is a practical use of classical conditioning?
-people on diets can learn to recognize when they have already paired their hunger signals with the sight of a restaurant -people can train their dogs with good behavior -people can housetrain an animal
reinforcement
an event that encourages behavior to happen again
stimulus
anything that causes a response
brandon gets headaches frequently but knows a cold cloth on his head makes him feel better. brandon continues to place a cold cloth on his head each time he gets a headache because it makes the pain go away faster. this is an example of _______.
negative reinforcement
_________ involves the likelihood of increasing behavior
positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement
how can you make a dog drool at the sound of a bell? pair the sound of the bell with the sight of some food and _________.
then eventually remove the food but keep the sound of the bell
shaping
giving reinforcement to the smaller behaviors that eventually make up the new behavior
classical conditioning
learning new associations by pairing two stimuli
the example of learning to write shows that with a little help, most people can have their behavior _________.
shaped
