Chapter 9

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

Acquiring new information. A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result in experience.

Question 2

Classical conditioning

Answer 2

Learning process of which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.

Question 3

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 3

A Russian physiologist that was studying the digestive system of dogs.

Question 4

Neutral stimulus

Answer 4

Stimulus that does not elicit any response.

Question 5

Unconditioned stimulus

Answer 5

Produces a response without prior learning.

Question 6

Unconditioned response

Answer 6

Unlearned response that is automatically associated with the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 7

Conditioned stimulus

Answer 7

Previously the neutral stimulus that elicits the conditioned response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 8

Conditioned response

Answer 8

Learned response to the conditioned stimulus.

Question 9

Generalization

Answer 9

The tendency of a new stimulus that is similar to the original stimulus to elicit a response that is similar to conditioned response.

Question 10

Discrimination

Answer 10

Learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others.

Question 11

Extinction

Answer 11

The weakening of the conditioned response in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 12

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 12

The conditioned response can appear again without further conditioning.

Question 13

Taste aversion

Answer 13

Acquisition only takes one time because the response is so strong. Cannot eat a particular food because we paired it with an unpleasant experience.