Learning Psychology

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Learning Psychology.

• Classical conditioning — Learning in which a previously neutral cue acquires the capacity to elicit a response after predictive pairing with a biologically or motivationally significant event.
• Law of effect — The learning principle that responses followed by satisfying consequences become more likely in the same situation, while responses followed by discomfort become less likely.