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| Learning | Relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. |
| Associative Learning | Learning that two events occur together. |
| Classical Conditioning | Learning that one stimulus is associated to another stimulus, thus creating a response. |
| Operant Conditioning | Associating a behavior with a consequence through rewards and punishments. |
| Social Learning | Learning by imitating and modeling others. |
| Behaviorism | The study of psychology that focuses on observable behaviors and not mental processes. |
| Ivan Pavlov | The man who laid the foundations of classical conditioning with his Dog experiments |
| John Watson | American psychologist who began to apply classical conditioning to human learning and developed Behaviorism |
| B.F. Skinner | Created Operant Conditioning |
| Albert Bandura | Established the Social Learning theory |
| Unconditioned Stimulus | The naturally and automatically occuring stimulus that triggers a response |
| Conditioned Stimulus | An originally neutral stimulus that through association begins to trigger a response |
| Uncondtioned Response | An unlearned, naturally occuring reaction to something |
| Conditioned Response | A learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus |
| Acquisition | The first phase in learning during classical conditioning |
| Extinction | The gradual disappearence of a response when a conditioned stimulus when an unconditioned stimulus is not present to reinforce it |
| Discrimination | Being able to tell the difference between stimuli |
| Generalization | Occurs when a person responds to anything similar to the original stimulus that caused the response |
| Spontaneous Recovery | The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinquished conditioned response |
| Taste Aversion | Used to help cure people of smoking and alcohol addictions by causing unpleasant reactions |
