A relatively permanent change in behavior that is brought about by experience.

Process by which a stimulus increases the probability that a preceding behavior will be repeated.

Rewarding a child with a PS3 game for having good grades.

Decrease in response to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

Any stimulus that increases the probability that a preceding behavior will occur again.

Restricting teenager's access to car due to breaking curfew.

A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response.

Refers to a stimulus that decreases the probability that a prior behavior will occur again.

Washing your car frequently will impress people.

A type of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on its favorable or unfavorable consequences.

The process of teaching a complex behavior by rewarding closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior.

Yelling at a child for being loud at night.

A basic phenomenon of learning that occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.

A formalized technique for promoting the frequency of desirable behaviors and decreasing the incidence of unwanted ones.

Cleaning out food bits on the sink leads to decrease in number of ants.