Chapter 4 - Basic Phenomena Flashcards
What is the asymptote of conditioning?
The maximum amount of conditioning that can take place in a particular situation.
What is the maximum amount of conditioning that can take place in any given situation?
The asymptote of conditioning.
What was one of Pavlov’s early observations on the ease of conditioning in dogs?
Dogs who are shy and withdrawn are more easily conditioned than active and outgoing dogs.
How does latent inhibition link with schizophrenia?
Patients with schizophrenia carry out less latent inhibition, making it more difficult for them to ignore irrelevant stimuli (more easily condition with familiar stimuli, rather than just novel stimuli), increasing their attention to background noise, for example.
What is acquisition?
The process of developing and strengthening a conditioned response through repeated pairings of an NS with a US.
What is the process of developing and strengthening a conditioned response through repeated pairings of an NS with a US?
Acquisition
What is blocking?
The prevention of conditioning with a new CS due to the association with a pre-existing CS.
What is the prevention of conditioning with a new CS due to the association with a pre-existing CS called?
Blocking
What is a compound stimulus?
A complex stimulus which involves the presentation of two or more individual stimuli at the same time.
What is the presentation of two or more individual stimuli at the same time referred to?
A compound stimulus
What is disinhibition?
The sudden recovery of a response during an extinction procedure when a novel stimulus is introduced
What can the sudden recovery of a response during an extinction procedure when a novel stimulus is introduced be called?
Disinhibition
What is experimental neurosis?
An experimentally produced disorder in which animals develop neurotic-like symptoms when exposed to unpredictable events.
What is external inhibition?
A decrease in strength of the conditioned response due to the presentation of a novel stimulus.
What is a decrease in strength of the conditioned response due to the presentation of a novel stimulus?
External inhibition
What is extinction?
The repeated presentation of the CS without the US, to weaken the conditioned response.
What is the repeated presentation of the CS without the US, to weaken the conditioned response?
Extinction.
What is higher order conditioning?
The process in which a neutral stimulus that is associated with a CS also becomes a CS. e.g. a CS, a tone, elicits salivation. The tone is then paired with a flash of light, which eventually can elicit salivation on it’s own (meaning it has become a CS).
Which process involves a neutral stimulus, that associated with a CS, becoming a CS. e.g. a CS, a tone, elicits salivation. The tone is then paired with a flash of light, which eventually can elicit salivation on it’s own (meaning it has become a CS).
Higher order conditioning
What is latent inhibition?
The phenomenon whereby a familiar stimulus is more difficult to condition as a CS.
The phenomenon whereby a familiar stimulus is more difficult to condition as a CS.
Latent inhibition
What is occasion setting?
A procedure in which a stimulus signals that a CS is likely to be followed by the US with which it is associated.
A procedure in which a stimulus signals that a CS is likely to be followed by the US with which it is associated.
Occasion setting
What is overshadowing?
It is the dominance of a more salient stimulus, when presented with another less salient stimulus, to be conditioned.
