Classical conditioning-DP3

Question 1

Classical conditioning

Answer 1

a neutral stimulus is associated with a natural response

Question 2

Neutral stimulus (NS)

Answer 2

is something in the environment which does not initially cause a response

Question 3

Unconditional stimulus (UCS)

Answer 3

is any stimulus that evokes a response without the organism going through any previous learning (a puff of air into eye makes react)

Question 4

Unconditioned response (UCR)

Answer 4

is a natural reflex to an unconditioned stimulus

Question 5

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Answer 5

is when the NS becomes the CS when it has the ability to produce a specific response (the bell was a neutral stimulus but once it would get a response from the dog it became the CS)

Question 6

conditioned response (CR)

Answer 6

is a learnt response to something that doesn’t naturally have the power to produce a response

Question 7

Three phase process

Answer 7

Before
during
After

Question 8

Three phase process example

coughing creating to conditioned response flinching

Answer 8

Before conditioning =
Neutral stimulus - coughing

During conditioning =
Unconditioned stimulus -tickling
Unconditioned response - laughing

After conditioning
Conditioned stimulus - coughing
Conditioned response - flinches/squeals/covers ribs

Question 9

Stimulus generalisation

Answer 9

Stimulus other than conditioned stimulus can evoke a response

e.g in pavlov case it happened when conditioned dogs to salivate at a bell, one day rang a different bell and the dogs still salivated.

Question 10

Stimulus discrimination

Answer 10

Stimulus other than the cs does not evoke a response

e.g Tried with whistle but didnt work

Question 11

Extinction

Answer 11

when no longer pairing conditioned stimulus with unconditioned stimulus it will no longer evoke a response

e.gonce the dogs realise they weren’t getting food after he kept ringing the bell they stopped responding

Question 12

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 12

can only happen after extinction and doesn’t happen every time

e.g after about a week the dogs that started to not salivate at the bell started salivating again

Question 13

The little Albert experiment

Answer 13

NS - rat
UCS - loud noise
UCR - fear, crying 
CS - rat 
CR - cry, try to get away

Albert demonstrated stimulus generation as he was scared of the rabbit as well as the rat

An ethical consideration is informed consent. This was breached as the mom was not in the room seeing what they did