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What is operant conditioning?
The form of instrumental conditioning that occurs in the Skinner box.
What is discrimination learning?
Learning to respond in the presence of an event (a green light) but not in the presence of another (a red light).
What is negative reinforcement?
The process of removing something as a consequence of a particular behaviour, which increases the frequency of showing that behaviour.
What is behaviour shaping?
The action of giving reinforcement for successive approximations to the desired response.
What is psychoanalysis?
Different forms of therapy that are used to address one's unconscious mind that ultimately influences their behaviour.
What is positive reinforcement?
The process of giving something as a consequence of a particular behaviour, which increases the frequency of showing that behaviour.
What is the control condition?
The ‘baseline’ condition, against which experimental conditions can be compared.
What is personality theory?
A set of theories about how personality develops and how it is structures.
What is social learning theory?
A theory of learning based on observing and imitating other individuals' behaviour.
What is an independent variable?
A variable which is manipulated by the experimenter to see what effect this has on another variable.
What is and who conducted the Bobo Doll Study?
It was conducted by Albert Bandura and was used to observe social learning theory by seeing how children react to watching one act aggressively to a doll.
What is determinism?
The belief that everything that happens, including human behaviour, is determined by past events.
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