Learning & Features of Classical Conditioning - Chapter 6

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

• Learning allows for beneficial changes in behaviour
  
  • Cognitive Learning:
    - Reading, Listening, and taking tests to acquire new knowledge
  • Associative Learning:
    - Pairing of stimuli

Question 2

Classical Conditioning

Answer 2

Learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus

Question 3

Acquisition, Extinction, and
Spontaneous Recovery

Answer 3

Association depends on repeated, temporally contiguous pairings

Question 4

Generalization

Answer 4

Response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to similar stimuli

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

Learning to respond to one original stimulus but not to a new, but similar stimuli

Question 6

Adaptive Learning Process

Answer 6

Generalization and discrimination allow organisms to make adaptive changes, thereby enhancing survival and fitness