There are many different kinds of ways that people and animals learn. ... The unconditioned stimulus is any stimulus, which consistently produces a naturally occurring, automatic response. ... But through repeated association with the conditioned stimulus, triggers the same response as the unconditioned stimulus. ... The conditioned response occurs after the conditioned stimulus has been associated with the unconditioned stimulus. ... Observational learning occurs when a person or an animal uses observation of another's actions and their consequences to guide their own future action...

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Unconditional stimulus is the example of the dogs food, unconditional response is the dog salivating. ... This study was about an infant who at plain site had no fear to fury white animals. ... When put together with the white fury animal for several trails little Albert was conditioned to automatically at plain site be afraid of white fury animals. ... Another component of operant conditioning is discriminative stimulus the specific stimulus in the presences of which a particular operant is more likely to be reinforced. ... Instinctive drift refers to the fact that an animal's natural ...

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Pavlov repeatedly presented a neutral stimulus, just before an unconditioned stimulus, triggered an unconditioned response. After several repetitions, the stimulus alone began triggering a conditioned response. ... In classical conditioning, animals learn when to expect an unconditioned stimulus. ... By making rewards contingent on desired behaviors, researchers and animal trainers gradually shape complex behaviors. ... Researchers have found striking evidence that animals cognitive abilities in solving problems and in using aspects of language. ...

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Animal behaviors are either instinctive or learned. ... With the stimulus of rain a frog dies, just as the rooster crows with the stimulus of dawn, and neither the frog nor the rooster had any choice in the matter, their behaviors were determined by the environment. ...

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He believed that changes in a subject's behavior result from conditioning, a learning process in which a new response becomes associated with a certain stimulus. ... Claim number one is also known as "Methodological" which claims that psychology should concern itself with the behavior or humans and animals. According to methodological behaviorism, reference to mental events (such as an animal's beliefs or desires) adds nothing to what psychology can and should understand about the sources of behavior. ... It explains how human and animal behavior in terms of response and learning his...

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By definition from the website, Mixed Signals, which was created by synesthetes for synesthetes, synesthesia " refers to the fact that in some animals, a stimulus in one sense modality involuntarily elicits a sensation or experience in another sense modality." (Emerson, 2002) This means that a synesthete can experience one stimulus with two different senses simultaneously. ... " (Emerson, 2002) Synesthesia has also been referred to as an "everyday Fantasia," referring to the 1940 Disney Movie where orchestral music is accompanied by whimsical and surreal scenes of anim...

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This Economic stimulus would be highly beneficial to this country, not to mention legalization would create about 60,000 retailers and about 100,000 jobs. ... This belief came from the outcomes of a select few animal experiments, which caused structural changes not actual cell death. ...

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The biological and cognitive approaches use animal studies and brain scans to look at the DNA, genes and neurotransmitters. ... In contrast, the research from the behaviorist approach reduced behavior to a simple stimulus and response relationship and the research is based only at examining the social causes for specific behaviours. ...

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They distinguished between shallow and deep operations and in doing so managed to focus on the nature of the processes used to encode a stimulus Shallow operations involved attending to orthographic characteristics of the word or simple rehearsal. ... or the meaning of the word ("Is the word a member of the category ANIMALS?") ...

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