GRE Psych

the relatively permanent or stable change in behavior as the result of experience

a cause-and-effect chain of behavior revoliving around reinforcement. individuals do what rewards them and stop doing what doesn't bring some reward

grouping things together based on the fact that they occur together in time and space; organisms associate certain behaviors with certain rewards and certain cues with certain situations

first famous as the winner of a Nobel Prize for work on digestion. He accidentally uncovered the concept now called classical conditioning

involves teaching an organism to respond to a neutral stimulus by pairing the neutral stimulus with a not-so-neutral stimulus--> this creates a relationship between the two

founded the school of behaviorism; everything could be explained by stimulus-response chains and conditioning was the key factor in developing these chains

the first scientific experiments to prove the concepts of Thorndike's law of effect and Watson's idea of the causes and effects of behavior; proved that animals are influenced by reinforcement; Skinner box

a stimulus that does not produce a specific response on its own

Pavlov's experiment:

this was the light before he conditioned a response to it

the not-so-neutral stimulus

• Pavlov's experiment:
• the food

the neutral stimulus once it has been paired with the UCS

the naturally occurring response to the UCS

• Pavlov's experiment:
• salivation in response to the food

the response that the CS elicits after conditioning