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Behavioral Theories Of Learning
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Behavioral Theories Of Learning
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1. Withdrawl of a pleasant consequence that is reinforcing a behavior - designed to decrease the chance that the behavior will recur

2. Rule stating that enjoyable activities can be used to rienforce participaiton in less enjoyable activites

3. A stimulus that naturally evokes a paricular response

4. Rienforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors

5. Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors

6. Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without them

7. Pleasurable consequence given to strengthen behavior

8. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer

9. The process of repeatedly associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in order to evoke a conditioned response

10. Carry over of behaviors - skills - or concepts from on setting or task to another

11. A priviously neutral stimulus that evokes a particular response after having been paiered with an unconditioned response

12. An apparatus develped by BF Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments is operant conditioning

13. Learning by observation and imitation

14. Food - water - or other consequence that satisfy a primary need

15. Perception of and response to differenced in stimuli

16. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior

17. Events that precede behaviors

18. The weakening and eventural elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn

19. Explanations of learning that focus on mental processes.

20. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following an unpredictable amount of time

21. An adverse stimulus following a behavior - used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again

22. The increase in levels of a behavior in the early stages of extinction

23. Learning theory that emphasizes not only reinforcement but also the effects of cues of thought and of thought on action

24. Continuation (of behavior)

25. A behavior that is prompted automatically by a stimulus