Chp 5 Learning

Question 1

What is learning ?

Answer 1

Any kind of change in the way an organism behaves is learning.

Question 2

Who was the first to use classical conditioning

Answer 2

Ivan Pavlov –

Russian physiologist (person who studies the workings of the body) who discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs.

Question 3

• learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex.

This is called …

Answer 3

Classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov dog saliva experiment

Question 4

Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is a.. ?
•Unconditioned means “unlearned” or “naturally occurring.”

Answer 4

naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary response.
Cause of involuntary effect
Loud noise
Kissing my mannnnnn
Sirens

Question 5

an involuntary response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus is an

Answer 5

Unconditioned response (UCR)
Effect of cause

Question 6

A - stimulus that becomes able to produce a learned reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus(cause) Is A ..?

Answer 6

Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Ice cream truck
dinner bell
Alarm Clock
The CAUSE
Seeing my man

Question 7

•Conditioned response (CR) is a ?

Answer 7

learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus.
•Sometimes called a conditioned reflex
Being startled
Running away
Screaming back
Feeling rush of endorphins

Question 8

Acquisition is ?

Answer 8

the repeated
pairing of the NS (the bell) and the UCS (dog food)
the organism is in the process of acquiring learning (to come get food when the bell rings)

Question 9

Stimulus generalization is the tendency to ?

Answer 9

respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response.

Question 10

• the tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the similar stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus. Is called

Answer 10

Stimulus discrimination

Question 11

Extinction is .. ?

Answer 11

the disappearance or weak learned response following the removal or absence of the unconditioned stimulus (in classical conditioning) or the removal of a reinforcer (in operant conditioning).