Classical Conditioning Flashcards
Learning
Relatively permanent change in behavior from experience
Classical conditioning
Type of learning, paired to stimuli for response
Stimulus
Person, place, thing we respond to
Response
How we act or behave
Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
Automatic person/place/thing
Unconditioned response (UCR)
Automatic act/behavior
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Trained person/place/thing
Conditioned response (CR)
Trained act/behavior
Acquisition
Actual process (repetition and intensity)
Extinction
When response dies
Spontaneous recovery
After extinction, response comes back
Generalization
Same response to similar stimuli
Discrimination
Different response to similar stimuli
Ivan Pavlov
Trained dogs to salivate to bell
John Watson and Rosalie Rayner
Little Albert experiment, fear rats from loud noises (generalization)