Classical Conditioning Flashcards
_____ - A form of learning in which you pair 2 previously unrelated stimuli (involves stimulus response relationship, comes from Ivan Pavlov)
Classical conditioning
_____ - done when an organism begins to associate something with events in our environment (Ex: experiment Ivan Pavlov conducted on his dogs w/ a bell and food)
Associative learning
_____ stimulus - What normally gives the response that is automatic or unconditioned response (usually biological, Ex: dog salivating)
Unconditioned Stimulus
_____ stimulus - A stimulus that does not yet elicit a response
Neutral stimulus
____ stimulus - a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response.
Conditioned stimulus
_____ - has learned avoidance of a particular food (if a food made us sick we avoid it)
Taste aversion
____ - irrational fear of an event or object
Phobia
____ - When we stop pairing the conditioned stimulus with the response, and it eventually goes away
Spontaneous Recovery
_____ - occurs when the organism responds the same way when given a similar stimulus (Ex: conditioning a response from circles and attempting to use other geometric shapes)
Generalization
______ - When the organism can distinguish between the stimuli
Discrimination
_____ - occurs when we introduce a new stimulus to the mix to elicit the same response (can be referred to as higher order conditioning)
Second-order conditioning
_____ - Erasing fear of phobia
Extinction
_____ - What psychologists can use in order to expose the client with the harmless stimulus (unpleasant but effective)
Flooding
_____ - increasing exposure to the stimulus over time
Systematic desensitization
_____ - Pairing a pleasant stimulus with a fearful one
Counterconditioning
