Ap Psychology Ch. 8 Learning Flashcards ionicons-v5-c

Law of Effect

(Thorndike) we will repeat behaviors that make us feel good and avoid things that make us feel bad

Continuous Reinforcment

everytime a behavior is repeated, a reward is given (good for establishing behavior)

Partial Reinforcement

reinforcing a response only part of the time (greater for avoiding extinction)

Chaining

putting all the individual shaped behaviors together

Principle of the Goal Gradient

the more closely a reinforcement, the more impact it has on that behavior

Premack Principle

you take a behavior you dont want to do and reinforce it with a behavior you do want to do

Intervening Variable

something that disrupts your performance

Law of Contiguity

if 2 things happen at the same time, we associate them together

Aquisition

when you add learning (aquiring) the conditioned response

Inter-Stimulus Interval

the amount of time that passes between the presentation of the CS and the UCS

Cognitive Processes

CS predicts or sets up expectancy about the UCS (Rescorla and Wagner)

Congitive Map

representation of the enviornment around you

Insight Learning

(Kohler) all of the sudden the solution of concept "clicks"

Overjustification Effect

reward someone for doing something they already love takes the joy out if it