Chapter 6: Learning

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

Enduring change in behavior or thinking, results from experiences

Question 2

Habituation

Answer 2

Learning evident when organism does not respond as strongly or as often to an event following multiple exposures

Question 3

Stimulus

Answer 3

Occurrence generally leading to a response

Question 4

Types of associative learning

Answer 4

Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observational learning

Question 5

How did Ivan Pavlov utilize classical conditioning?

Answer 5

He had his dogs associate food with a bell in order to induce salivation with only the sound of the bell

Question 6

Classical conditioning

Answer 6

Learning process which 2 stimuli become associated with each other
The original neutral stimulus is conditioned to elicit involuntary response

Question 7

Neutral stimulus

Answer 7

Stimulus that does not cause a relevant automatic or reflexive response

Question 8

Unconditioned stimulus

Answer 8

Automatically triggers involuntary response

Question 9

Unconditioned response

Answer 9

Reflexive, involuntary response response to unconditioned stimulus

Question 10

Conditioned stimulus

Answer 10

Previously neutral stimulus associated with unconditioned stimulus

Question 11

Conditioned response

Answer 11

Learned response to conditioned stimulus

Question 12

Acquisition

Answer 12

Initial learning phase in classical conditioning

Question 13

Conditioned tase aversion

Answer 13

Powerful form of classical conditioning
Can occur after only one pairing
Organism learns to associate taste of food or drink with illness
May have adaptive value