Chapter 8 Vocab

Question 0

Learning that certain events occur together the events may be stimuli or a response and it consequences

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Associate learning

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A relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior due to experience

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Learning

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Type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli a neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus

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Classical conditioning

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The view the psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental process

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Behaviorism

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Classical conditioning changed the way he did his research

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Ivan Pavlov

Question 5

In classical conditioning a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response

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Unconditioned stimulus

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In classical conditioning the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus such as salivation when good is in the mouth

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Unconditioned response

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Stimulus that does not elect any response

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Neutral stimulus

Question 8

In classical conditioning an originally irrelevant stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response

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Conditioned stimulus

Question 9

In classical conditioning the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus

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Conditioned response

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The initial stage in classical conditioning the phase associating a neural stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus so that the natural stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response

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Acquisition

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The diminishing of a conditioned response occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus occurs in apparent conditioning when response is no longer reinforced

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Extinction

Question 12

The reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response

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Spontaneous recovery

Question 13

The tendency once a response has been conditioned for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

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Generalization

Question 14

In classical conditioning the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

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Discrimination