Mod 15: Classical Conditioning

Question 1

Learning

Answer 1

A relatively permanent change in behavior due to an experience

Question 2

Behaviorism

Answer 2

View that psychology should restrict efforts to studying observable behaviors, not processes (Founded by John Watson)

Question 3

Classical Conditioning

Answer 3

A stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces that response

Question 4

Stimulus

Answer 4

Anything in the environment that one can respond to

Question 5

Response

Answer 5

Reaction to a stimulus

Question 6

Unconditioned Response (UCR)

Answer 6

Automatic response to the UCS

Question 7

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

Answer 7

A stimulus that automatically triggers a response

Question 8

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

Answer 8

Neutral stimulus at first, pairs with the UCS and produces a conditioned response (CR)

Question 9

Conditioned Response (CR)

Answer 9

Response to CS

Question 10

Spontaneous Recovery

Answer 10

Response shows up later without repairing UCS and CS

Question 11

Extinction (Classical Conditioning)

Answer 11

Diminishing of a learned response

Question 12

Generalization

Answer 12

An organism produces the SAME response to two similar stimuli

Question 13

Discrimination

Answer 13

An organism produces DIFFERENT responses to two similar stimuli

Question 14

Classical Conditioning Formula

Answer 14

UCS = UCR

NS + UCS = UCR

CS = CR

Question 15

In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the UCS?

Answer 15

Dog Food

Question 16

In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the UCR?

Answer 16

Drool

Question 17

In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the NS?

Answer 17

Bell

Question 18

In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the CS?

Answer 18

Bell

Question 19

In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the CR?

Answer 19

Drool

Question 20

In college when you are in the shower the toilet gets flushed, you hear the word FLUSH, and the water immediately turns hot causing you to jump. What is the UCS?

Answer 20

Water Temperature

Question 21

In college when you are in the shower the toilet gets flushed, you hear the word FLUSH, and the water immediately turns hot causing you to jump. What is the UCR?

Answer 21

Jump

Question 22

In college when you are in the shower the toilet gets flushed, you hear the word FLUSH, and the water immediately turns hot causing you to jump. What is the NS?

Answer 22

FLUSH

Question 23

In college when you are in the shower the toilet gets flushed, you hear the word FLUSH, and the water immediately turns hot causing you to jump. What is the CR?

Answer 23

Jump