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Learning - ANSWER ✔✔the process of acquiring new and relatively
enduring information or behaviors
Habituation - ANSWER ✔✔decreasing responsiveness with repeated
stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual
stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner.
Associative Learning - ANSWER ✔✔learning that certain events
occur together
Stimulus - ANSWER ✔✔a signal to which an organism responds
, Cognitive Learning - ANSWER ✔✔the acquisition of mental
information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or
through language
Classical Conditioning - ANSWER ✔✔a type of learning in which one
learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
Behaviorism - ANSWER ✔✔the science of behavior that focuses on
observable behavior only
Neutral Stimulus - ANSWER ✔✔in classical conditioning, a stimulus
that elicits no response before conditioning
Unconditioned Response - ANSWER ✔✔in classical conditioning, an
unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus - ANSWER ✔✔A stimulus that evokes an
unconditioned response without previous conditioning
Conditioned Response - ANSWER ✔✔a learned response to a
previously neutral stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus - ANSWER ✔✔a stimulus that elicits a
response only after learning has taken place