Chapter 6.1 Flashcards
Behaviorism
The position that psychology should concern itself only with what people and other animals do, and the circumstances in which they do it.
Stimulus-Response Psychology
The attempt to explain behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response.
Unconditioned Reflexes
(automatic connections) Between a stimulus such as food and a response such as secreting digestive juices.
Classical Conditioning
(Pavlovian conditioning) The process which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli - a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response.
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
An event that automatically elicits an unconditioned response.
Unconditioned Response (UCR)
Is the action that the unconditioned stimulus elicits.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
The metronome is the CS because a dogs response to it depends on the preceding conditions - that is pairing the CS with the UCS.
Conditioned Response (CR)
The salvation that follows the metronome is the CR. The CR is whatever response the conditioned stimulus elicits as a result of the condition procedure.
Extinction
To extinguish a classically conditioned response, repeatedly present the CS with out the UCS.
Acquisition
The process that establishes or strengthens a conditioned response.
Spontaneous Recovery
Is a temporary return of an extinguished response after a delay
Stimulus Generalization
Is the extension of a conditioned response from the training stimulus to similar stimuli.
Discriminate
To respond differently to stimuli that predict different outcomes.
Drug Tolerance
Users of certain drugs experience progressively weaker effects after taking the drugs repeatedly.
Blocking Effect
The previously established association to one stimulus blocks the formation of an association to the added stimulus.
