Chapter 6 Key Terms Crossword

Something that produces a reaction.
Reaction from a person or animal.
To learn.
Simple form of learning in which one stimulus calls forth the response that is usually called forth by another stimulus.
Stimulus that causes a reaction that is automatic, not learned.
An automatic response.
Learned response to a stimulus that was previously neutral, or meaningless.
A learned stimulus.
A learned avoidance of a particular food.
Classical conditioning helps people and animals adapt to their environment.
Organisms sometimes display responses that were extinguished earlier.
Act of responding in the same ways to stimuli that seem to be similar, even if the stimuli are not identical.
Act of responding differently to stimuli that are not similar to each other.
A person is exposed to the harmless stimulus until fear responses to that stimulus are extinguished.
Help people overcome their fears.
A pleasent stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting that fear.
People and animals learn to do certain things- and not to do others- because of the results when they do.
Process by which stimulus increases the changes that the preceding behavior will occur again.
Reinforcers that function due to the biological makeup of the organism.
Initially acquire their value through being paired with established reinforcers.
Increase the frequency of the behavior they follow when they are applied.
Increase the frequency of the behavior that follows when they are removed.
When and how often the reinforcement occurs.