A relatively permanent behavior change due to experience. It comes from
experience.
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Learning
Our capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with changing circumstances.
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Adaptability
A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary
reinforcer; also known as secondary reinforcer.
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Conditioned Reinforcer
In the operant-conditioning procedure of shaping, behaviors that are ordered in
terms of increasing similarity or closeness to the desired response.
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Successive Approximations
Challenged the idea that all associations can be learned equally well.
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A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.
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Insight
During operant learning, the tendency for an organism to revert to instinctive
behavior. When organisms stop performing those behaviors in the way they learned
and start reverting back to their more instinctual behaviors.
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Instinctive Drift
Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.
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Operant Behavior
A type of learning in which a behavior is strengthened (meaning, it will occur more
frequently) when it's followed by reinforcement, and weakened (will happen less
frequently) when followed by punishment.
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Operant Conditioning
experience.
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Learning
Our capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with changing circumstances.
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Adaptability
A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary
reinforcer; also known as secondary reinforcer.
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Conditioned Reinforcer
In the operant-conditioning procedure of shaping, behaviors that are ordered in
terms of increasing similarity or closeness to the desired response.
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Successive Approximations
Challenged the idea that all associations can be learned equally well.
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John Garcia
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.
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Insight
During operant learning, the tendency for an organism to revert to instinctive
behavior. When organisms stop performing those behaviors in the way they learned
and start reverting back to their more instinctual behaviors.
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Instinctive Drift
Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.
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Operant Behavior
A type of learning in which a behavior is strengthened (meaning, it will occur more
frequently) when it's followed by reinforcement, and weakened (will happen less
frequently) when followed by punishment.
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Operant Conditioning