Mod 15: Classical Conditioning Flashcards
Learning
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to an experience
Behaviorism
View that psychology should restrict efforts to studying observable behaviors, not processes (Founded by John Watson)
Classical Conditioning
A stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces that response
Stimulus
Anything in the environment that one can respond to
Response
Reaction to a stimulus
Unconditioned Response (UCR)
Automatic response to the UCS
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
A stimulus that automatically triggers a response
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Neutral stimulus at first, pairs with the UCS and produces a conditioned response (CR)
Conditioned Response (CR)
Response to CS
Spontaneous Recovery
Response shows up later without repairing UCS and CS
Extinction (Classical Conditioning)
Diminishing of a learned response
Generalization
An organism produces the SAME response to two similar stimuli
Discrimination
An organism produces DIFFERENT responses to two similar stimuli
Classical Conditioning Formula
UCS = UCR
NS + UCS = UCR
CS = CR
In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the UCS?
Dog Food
In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the UCR?
Drool
In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the NS?
Bell
In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the CS?
Bell
In Pavlov’s dog experiment, what was the CR?
Drool
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?
Water Temperature
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?
Jump
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?
FLUSH
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?
Jump
