________________ refers to the presentation of an event or stimulus following a behavior that acts to decrease the likelihood of the behavior being repeated.

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• The process by which an organism learn to make a particular response to a specific stimulus and to no other stimulus is____________________
• ________________ involves the presentation or addition of a reinforcing stimulus following an operant.
• A ________________ reinforcer is a stimulus or event that is naturally or inherently reinforcing for a given species, such as food, water, or other biological necessities.
• ________________ is the basic learning process that involves changing the probability of a response being repeated by manipulating the consequences of that response.
• _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.
• ___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.
• Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened is _________________
• ____________________ is defined as any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of practice or experience.
• ___________________ focus was on the scientific study of observable behavior that could be objectively measured and verified.
• The Austrian physician who emphasized unconscious processes rather than overt observable behavior was ________________.