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- an event that tends to decrease the behavior that it follows
- the desire to perform a behavior effectively and for its own sake
- predispose organisms to learn associations that are naturally adaptive
- a learned response to eating food that is toxic, spoiled, or poisoned
- remove unpleasant stimulus to increase behavior
- behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely
- the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
- organisms develop an expectation that CS signals the arrival of US
- behaving in ways that gain external rewards or avoid punishment
- add pleasant stimulus to increase behavior
- the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus
- learning associations between events we do not control
- natural predispositions constrain what stimuli and responses can easily be associated
- the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response
- acquiring new mental information through observing situations, observing people, or through language
- the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli like the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
- the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
- the process of acquiring new information through experiences and observations
- a biological predisposition to learn associations, such as between taste and nausea, that have survival value
- any event or situation that evokes a response