chapter 6

• behaviorism


  portion that psychology should concern itself only with what people and animals do and the circumstances too.
• stimulus response psychology

  the attempt to explain behavion in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response
• unconditioned reflexes: something that occurs without a special condition, it happens automatic.
• what is a classical conditioning?


  the process by which am organism learns a new association berween two stimuli-a neutral stimulus and evoke a reflexive response
• conditioned stimulus: stimulus that produces a conditioned response
• conditioned response: a response that occurs after a conditioned stimulus has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus
• unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that is not learned to be associated with a response
• unconditioned response: a response to a stimulus that is not learned through conditioning
• stimulus generalization: the extension of a conditioned response from the training stimulus to similar stimuli
• blocking effect: blocks the information of an assiciation to the added stimulus
• VICARIOUS REINFORCEMENT


  SUBSTITUTING SOMEONE ELSE’S EXPERIENCE FOR YOUR OWN