"Theories Are Nets to Catch What We Call 'The World

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Essay

"Theories are nets to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it." Explain how theories help students rationalize, explain, and eventually master concepts.

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A conditioning process where a stimulus that's associated with a conditioned stimulus also becomes a conditioned stimulus itself.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of an extinguished response (in a weaker form) when an organism is exposed to the original conditioned stimulus following a rest period.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears after the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated with a significant stimulus.