Module 6.1 - Classical Conditioning Flashcards

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1
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learning

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a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of expreience

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what are the 2 types of learning?

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cognitive and associative

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ivan pavlov

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physiologist who won a Nobel Prize for his research on digestion

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psychological reflex

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the sight of food producing salivation

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what response did pavlov call psychic secretion?

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the dogs sight of food produced salivation

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classical conditioning

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

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another name for classical conditioning?

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pavlovian conditioning

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what are the 5 element of classical conditioning?

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1) unconditioned stimulus (US)
2) unconditioned response (UR)
3) Neutral Stimulus
4) Conditioned stimulus (CS)
5) Conditioned Response (CR)

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unconditioned stimulus

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a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning

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unconditioned response

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a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus

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give 3 examples of unconditioned responses

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salivation, flinching, blinking

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neutral stimulus

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a stimulus that does not normally elicit a reflexive response

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conditioned stimulus

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a once neutral stimulus that later elicits a response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus

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conditioned response

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the learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus

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the conditioned stimulus must elicit a conditioned response in the absence of the __________ (e.g., food) for the conditioning to have occurred

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unconditioned stimulus

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true or false: during conditioning, weak synapses fire at the same time as related strong synapses

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true

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what does the simultaneous activity of the weak and strong synapses do?

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strengthens the connections in the weaker synapse

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what is the US, UR, NS, CS, and CR for: The TV commercial for mega burger shows a big delicious cheeseburger. a 50’s rock and roll song is played during the commercial. you see the commercial several times, and now when the song is playing on the radio, you get hungry

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unconditioned stimulus: cheeseburger

unconditioned response: hunger

neutral stimulus: song

conditioned stimulus: song

conditioned response: hunger

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what is the initial phase of learning in which a response is established (e.g., salivating in response to a tone)

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Acquisition

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conditioned ______ helps predict that the unconditioned stimulus will appear

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conditioned stimulus

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what will be acquired more quickly when the conditioned stimulus precedes the unconditioned stimulus

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the conditioned response

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what makes acquisition stronger?

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if the CS and US are consistently present close together in time

23
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what are the 2 stages of conditioning?

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1) extinction

2) spontaneous recovery

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extinction

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the loss or weakening of a CR when a CS and US no longer occur together

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what is an example of extinction?

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if the tone is no longer a reliable predictor of food, then salivation becomes unnecessary

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spontaneous recovery

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the reoccurrence of a previously extinguished conditioned response, typically after some time has passed since extinction

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what are the 2 processes of conditioning?

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1) stimulus generalization

2) stimulus discrimination

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stimulus generalization

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a process in which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to different, though similar, stimuli

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stimulus discrimination

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when an organism learns to respond to one original stimulus but not to new stimuli that may be similar to the original stimulus

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when does stimulus discrimination often occur?

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when similar stimuli are NOT paired with US

31
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phobia

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when fear of an object or situation becomes irrational and interferes with normal activities

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true or false: all phobias occur naturally

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FALSE: some phobias occur naturally (possibly due to genetics); however, many fears are learned through experience

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little albert

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infant with no fear of animals, however, when researcher made a loud noise (UCS) behind his head, he would jump (UCR).

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who paired the loud noise (US) with the appearance of the animal (CS)? (little albert)

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john watson and rosalie rayner

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conditioned emotional responses

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emotional and physiological responses that develop to a specific object or situation

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preparedness

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the biological predisposition to rapidly learn a response to a particular class of stimuli

37
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the _____ is involved in fear conditioning

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amygdala

38
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contextual fear conditioning

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learning to fear a location (e.g., cage where a shock occurred)

39
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contextual fear conditioning involves the ______

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hippocampus

40
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conditioned taste aversions

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an acquired dislike or disgust of a food or drink because it was paired with illness

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true or false: there is a decreased reward response in the brain with conditioned taste aversions

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true

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what were the 2 types of tubes that rats were presented to sip water from?

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1) associated with lights and sound

2) associated with a flavour

43
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what were the rats injected with to make them sick (US)?

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lithium chloride

44
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which association of tube for water would the rats show a larger learned aversion for?

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water tube associated with flavour

45
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garcia effect

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taste produces stronger aversive conditioning than sights and sounds - a single exposure is often enough

46
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latent inhibition

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when frequent experience with a stimulus before it is paired with a US makes it less likely that conditioning will occur after a single episode of illness

47
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the paradox of diet beverages

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our bodies associate sweet tastes with an impending intake of calories. diet beverages trigger our sweet, but don’t deliver the calories so or bodies respond by sending out a hunger message

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drug paraphernalia and settings serve as a ________ for the ‘high’ of a drug (CR)

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conditioned stimulus

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conditioned drug tolerance

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physiological responses preparing our body for the drug to start to occur prior to the intake of the drug

50
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in humans, ________ can sometimes become associated with sexual responses (UR), which in turn can lead to fetishes

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neutral stimuli (e.g., boots)

51
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what are advertising techniques based on?

A

classical conditioning

52
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evaluative conditioning

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pairing motional stimuli (e.g., attractive people) with a target in order to influence peoples perceptions and attitudes toward that target

53
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what 4 things do attack ads usually involve?

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1) black and white, grainy images that are frustrating to look at
2) images that allow you to judge/mock the target
3) images of the politician making an angry face
4) an angry narrator whose voice elicits autonomic responses