A neutral stimulus is associated with a natural response.
Operant Conditioning
A response is increased or decreased due to reinforcement or punishment.
Observational Learning
Learning occurs through observation and imitation of others.
Stimulus
Any environmental feature that affects behavior.
Extinction
The dying out of a conditioned response by breaking the association between CS and UCS.
Spontaneous Recovery
The return of a conditioned response after a period of time following extinction.
Positive punishment involves adding an aversive consequence after an undesired behavior is emitted to decrease future responses.
Positive Punishment
Garcia Effect
Avoiding a food that has been associated with being sick, even if the food is not what caused the illness, simply seeing, smelling, thinking, or talking about the food will make you feel nauseous.
Biofeedback
A mind-body technique that involves using visual or auditory feedback to gain control over involuntary bodily functions such as blood flow, blood pressure, and heart rate.
Higher-order Learning
A form of learning in which a stimulus is first made meaningful or consequential for an organism through an initial step of learning, and then that stimulus is used as a basis for learning about some new stimulus.