Learning And Memory Flashcards
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Classic conditioning
Pavlov
- was studying digestive processes in dogs
- notice that dogs begin to salivate two meat powder and associated stimuli
- decided to investigate the phenomenon
Unconditioned stimulus( us)
+ naturally elicits response
Example: meat powder
Unconditioned response
+ naturally elicited response
Example: salivation
Conditioned stimulus(CS)
- does it naturally elicit response but after repeated pairing conditioned response is similar but weaker in magnitude to the conditioned response
Example: ringing of bell
Conditioned response( CR)
- similar to the unconditioned response but weaker in magnitude
Example: salivation
Factors that influence the effectiveness of classical conditioning
+ number of pairings
- temporal relationship between the cs and the US
Delay conditioning
- the condition stimulus up in (cs) is presented so it proceeds and overlaps with presentation of the unconditioned stimulus (us)
- most effective, delay of 1/2 second between presentation of cs and us is optimal
Trace conditioning
- condition stimulus (cs) is presented and terminated before presentation of the unconditioned stimulus (us)
Simultaneous conditioning
- condition stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (us) are presented and terminated at the same time
- less effective
Backwards conditioning
- you present the unconditioned stimulus (us) before the condition. Stimulus (cs)
- unlikely to produce a conditioned response
Effectiveness of classic conditioning
- the presentation of the unconditioned stimulus is contingent upon the presentation of the condition stimulus
Classical Extinction
The loss of a conditioned response because it has been repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus (us)
Spontaneous recovery
- conditioned response has been extinguished but later occurs when the cs is presented even though it has not been presented again with the US
+ Extinguished response is suppressed not eliminated
Stimulus generalization
- stimuli similar to the cs illicit condition response even though never presented with the US
- when using 800 HZ tone presented with meat powder to elicit salvation, 600 HZ and a thousand HZ began to produce salvation even though never paired
Stimulus discrimination
- ability to discriminate between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli and respond only to the cs with CR
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Discrimination training
- can teach to be able to discriminate between the cs and similar stimuli
- present the 800 HZ toned with meat powder and the 600 HZ tone without and condition the dogs to salivate only to the 800 HZ tone
Experimental neurosis
Unusual behaviors exhibited by Pavlov’s dogs when they were required to make difficult decisions regarding discrimination during discrimination training
Extreme Agitation and aggressive behavior in the dogs
- conflict between the excitatory and inhibitory processes in the cerebral cortex
Higher order conditioning
- treat CS as an US and repeatedly present it with a new neutral stimulus so that the neutral stimulus becomes a CS and elicits the conditioned response when presented alone
- Pavlov: paired presentation of ringing Bell with meat powder so that presentation of the ringing Bell alone produce salivation
- then paired presentation of a black square printed on paper with the ringing Bell so that eventually presentation of the black square alone elicited salivation
- when higher, order conditioning involves a second condition stimuli it’s second order conditioning and when the third, third order and so on
+ Original believed had no limits but in dogs it was found that can’t produce past second order
Little Albert
Watson
- proposed that many phobic reactions are classic conditioned
- Alyssa did a startle response to a white rabbit and little Albert by pairing alpresentation of a white rabbit with a loud noise that naturally elicited a startle response
- White rabbit was a neutral stimulus, but after repeated pairing became a condition stimulus and Edison that started response
+ Little Albert elicited a great deal of stimulus generalization and reacted to other white furry objects with the startle response
Interventions that use classical conditioning to alter behavior
- Extinction
- counter conditioning
Interventions that use classical conditioning to alter behavior
- Extinction
- counter conditioning
Interventions based on Extinction
- assume that an object or situation that does not ordinarily produce anxiety or fear has become a conditioned stimulus that now produces a conditioned response of fear or anxiety because at some time it was paired with the unconditional stimulus that naturally elicited fear or anxiety
- exposure with response prevention
- implosive therapy
Exposure with response prevention
Assumes repeated exposure to the cs without the US will result in Extinction of the CR
- A conditioned anxiety response is never extinguished because the person avoids The conditioned stimulus to avoid anxiety
- you expose the person to anxiety. Arousing object or situation while prohibiting them from engaging in avoidance behaviors as a result, the conditioned response of anxiety is extinguished
- in vivo( real life setting ), virtual reality, or in imagination (imaginal)
- flooding or graded exposure?
Flooding
- client is subjected to exposure to a stimuli that elicits the most intents anxiety during all exposure sessions
- effective