What Is a Holistic Perspective

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What is a holistic perspective?

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Definitions:

Instinctive Drift

The phenomenon whereby an animal's learned behavior reverts to its natural instincts over time, often interfering with conditioned response training.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli based on their associations with different outcomes.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the process where a conditioned response decreases or disappears after the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second, often weaker, conditioned response.