The reduction in responsiveness to a stimulus due to repetition of an event without negetive consequences
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What is sensitisation?
The increase in responsiveness to a stimulus due to the situation
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What is associative learning?
Learning of the association between 2 events, these events may not even be causational, they just regularly co occured
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What is contiguity?
The theory that events that co-occur in the same space of time become associated
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What is contingency?
The predictive relationship between 2 events e.g. how likely they are to co-occur e.g. thunder and lightning
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What is operant conditioning?
Learning through associating the behaviour with a reward or punishment
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What is an overt response?
Behaviour that is being observed by people other than the subject
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What is a covert response?
Behaviour that is only observed by the subject
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What is behaviourism?
The study of directly observational behaviour
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What did Watson suggest?
All behaviour is initially innate and dependant on evolution. Learning involves simple connection between stimulus and response. All humans born with a few reflexes and 3 emotions, and the rest are learnt
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What did Polgår suggest/do?
He believed behaviours are not innate but are learnt, to prove this, from birth he nurtured his daughters to play chess - they all became very good and one became the best female chess player in the world
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What did Hull suggest?
Believed that non-observable events can be studied, if it can be operationalised, it can be studied
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What is deprivation?
Absence of an event for a long period of time can make you desire it more
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What is satiation?
Prolonged exposure to a stimulus makes us want it less,maybe even avoid it
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What did Tolman suggest?
Behaviours are goal directed, people learn expectancies in order to anticipate the consequences
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What did Bandura suggest?
The SLT - behaviour is learnt through observation
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What did Skinner suggest?
Environmental factors lead to the observed behaviour
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Card 2
Front
What is habituation?
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The reduction in responsiveness to a stimulus due to repetition of an event without negetive consequences
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