Learning and Conditioning Flashcards
The process by which experience or practice results in a relatively permanent change in behavior or potential behavior:
Learning
Learning that happens when an organism connects two previously unconnected elements:
Associative Learning
An understanding that there is a cause and effect relationship between 2 stimuli or a behavior and a stimulus:
Contingency
The type of learning in which a response naturally excited by one stimulus becomes elicited by a different, formally neutral, stimulus:
Classical Conditioning
What’s an example of Classical Conditioning?
A puff of air elicits one to flinch and blink
A stimulus that naturally or automatically triggers a response:
UCS (Unconditioned Stimulus)
An unlearned naturally occurring response to UCS:
UCR
Elicits no response:
Neutral Stimulus
An irrelevant stimulus that after association with UCS, comes to trigger a conditioned response:
CS
Learned response to a previously neutral CS:
CR
The process of learning a conditioned response by introducing a neutral stimulus before the UCS:
Acquisition
The process of unlearning a conditioned association; break link between CS and UCS:
Extinction
The reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response:
Spontaneous Recovery
The tendency for stimuli like the CS to elicit similar responses:
Generalization
The ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimulus that do not signal a UCS:
Discrimination
Pair a new stimulus before the now conditioned stimulus and produce the conditioned response:
Second/Higher Order Conditioning
Occurs when learning interferes with condition to another stimulus:
Blocking
Who is the father of Classical Conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
For a quick acquisition, the time between the neutral and UCS should be:
1/2 a second
Pavlov’s work proved that the process of learning can be studied ______:
Objectively
Who was a strong nurturist?
John B. Watson
Classical Conditioning may explain some emotional disorders like _____:
Phobias
Robert Rescorla suggest that the ______ __ _________:
Concept of Contingency
John Garcia showed that a duration between the CS and the UCS may be ____ but results in conditioning:
Long
Organisms learn the predictability of a stimulus, not just repeated pairings like Pavlov believed:
Concept of Contingency
