Chapter 9 Learning (1)

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience.

Question 2

Classical conditioning

Answer 2

A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned, neutral stimulus.

Question 3

Neutral stimulus

Answer 3

A stimulus that does not initially elicit a response

Question 4

Unconditioned stimulus

Answer 4

An event that elicits a certain predictable response without previous training

Question 5

Uncondtioned response

Answer 5

An organisms automatic or natural reaction to a stimulus

Question 6

Conditioned stimulus

Answer 6

A once neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of training in which it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus

Question 7

Conditioned response

Answer 7

The learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus

Question 8

Generalization

Answer 8

Responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli

Question 9

Discrimination

Answer 9

The ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli

Question 10

Extinction

Answer 10

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 11

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 11

When you start to get the conditioned response again after not having it for a period of time

Question 12

Taste Aversions

Answer 12

When you eat something, typically new to you, and then get sick after and blame it on something you ate, then you feel nauseous at the site or smell of that food