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What We are Learning: This week students have been learning about Operant Conditioning! They have been learning, and will continue to learn about reinforcers and punishments and how both can alter behavior. The discussions are great!

 

Weekly Vocab Quizzes: Each week students will take a vocabulary quiz to keep them current in their understanding, and it gives them the opportunity to regularly practice helpful testing skills. The next vocab quiz will be Friday, January 31, 2020. The words included are the following:

  • Learning
  • Classical conditioning
  • Neutral stimulus
  • Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
  • Unconditioned Response (UCR)
  • Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
  • Conditioned Response (CR)
  • Extinction
  • Spontaneous recovery
  • Stimulus generalization
  • Discrimination stimulus 
  • Operant conditioning
  • Reinforcement
  • Reinforcer
  • Primary reinforcer
  • Secondary reinforcer
  • Positive reinforcer
  • Negative reinforcer
  • Punishment
  • Positive punishment
  • Negative punishment
  • Reward 

 

Inspiring Quote: 

“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” -Jerry Rice