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a characteristic of a person, place, or thing that can change over time or across situations -
✔✔variable
A classical conditioning concept referring to an animal's inability to infer a relationship between a
particular stimulus and response due to the presence of a more prominent stimulus. -
✔✔overshadowing
a familiar stimulus is more difficult to condition than an unfamiliar stimulus. an unfamiliar/novel
stimulus is more readily conditioned as a CS than a familiar stimulus. Similar to habituation -
✔✔latent inhibition
a particular instance of a behavior, the behavioral result of a stimulus. - ✔✔response
a predictive relationship between two events. One usually comes subsequently to others, indicating
the probability of another stimulus occurring. (ie lightning indicates that thunder will most likely sound)
- ✔✔contingency
a procedure in which a stimulus (the occasion setter) signals whether a CS is likely to be followed by
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a US. This controls whether the CS will elicit a CR - ✔✔occasion setting
a procedure that affects the appetitiveness or aversiveness of an event
establishing operation and abolishing operation - ✔✔motivating operations
a stimulus elicits a response because it has been paired/associated with another stimulus -
✔✔classical conditioning
a stimulus that is associated with a CS can also become a CS
first order conditioning
second order condiitoning - ✔✔higher order conditioning
a stimulus that naturally elicits a behavioral response - ✔✔unconditioned stimulus
a stimulus that was previously associated with a CS (before it was associated with a US can become
a CS itself - ✔✔sensory preconditioning
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a treatment is implemented at successive points in time for two or more individuals, settings, or
behaviors
good for designs when behavior may produce permanent change/removal, unethically - ✔✔multiple
baseline design
a type of descriptive research in which one systematically observes and records instances of a
behavior in its natural environment.
mating or eating habits - ✔✔naturalistic observation
a type of descriptive research in which you intensely study one or a few individuals
usually subject of interest is so rare you could not design an experiment with multiple subjects -
✔✔case study
addiction is partially motivated by the desire to avoid withdrawal symptoms, hence the compensatory
effects
tolerance is a result of the CS eliciting a response that will maintain bodily homeostasis - ✔✔drug
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addiction
an elicited response that appears to be a cr but is caused by sensitization rather than conditioning
pair light flash w shock, flexion reflex
light flash, flexion reflex
beep noise, flexion reflex - ✔✔pseudoconditioning
an event an organism seeks out. (ie food) - ✔✔appetitive stimulus
an event an organism will avoid (ie touching hot stove) - ✔✔aversive stimulus
an experiment produced disorder in which animals exposed to unpredictable events develop
neurotic-like symptoms - ✔✔experimental neurosis
any event that can potentially influence a behavior - ✔✔stimulus
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