8 First Half Flashcards
Associative learning
Learning that certain events occur together.
Learning
A relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience
Classical condition
A type of learning In which an organism comes to associate stimuli.
Behaviorism
The view that psychology should be an objective Science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
Ivan Pavlov
The guy who did the dog experiment
Unconditioned response
In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation when food is in your mouth
Unconditioned stimulus
In classical condition, a stimulus that unconditionlly- naturally and automatically- triggers a response
Conditioned response
In classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
Conditioned stimulus
In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
Acquisition
The initial stage in classical conditioning, the phase associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the neural stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response.
Discrimination
Unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members
Extinction
: the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced
Spontaneous Recovery
the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
Generalization
the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.
Neutral stimulus
The bell
