Classical Conditioning
The pairing of an unconditioned stimulus, an unconditioned responce and a neutral stimulus.
Generalization
Conditioned responses can occur in response to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus
Discrimination
Learning to tell the difference between different stimuli, responding only to the conditioned stimulus and not to similar stimuli
Exstinction
When the pairing of the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus stops. Gradual decrease in the response to the conditioned stimulus
Founded behaviorism
Applied conditioning principles to humans. Rejection of introspection.Tabula rasa approach
John B. Watson
Personality IS a group of responses to the environment. Radical determinism. Operant Conditioning.
B. F. Skinner
Radical determinism
All behavior is caused
Operant Conditioning
Behavior is changed by its consequences
Secondary drives
The drives that are learned by association with the satisfaction of primary drives
Approach-avoidance conflict
A conflict between primary and secondary drives that occurs when a punishment results in the conditioning of a fear response to the drive.
Approach-Approach conflict
A conflict in which a person is drawn to two equally attractive choices.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
A conflict in which a person is faced with two equally undesireable choices.
Social Learning Theory
A theory that purposes that habits are built up in terms of hierarchy of secondary drives
Act Frequency Approach
Assesing personality by examining the frequency with which a person performs certain observable tasks.