Respondent Conditioning Flashcards
What is Respondent Conditioning
responding behaviours are controlled (elected) by stimuli
What did Ivan Pavlov originally want to study with the dog and meat powder
research on the physiology of digestion
What did Pavlov do with the dog and meat power (and what did he find)
He measured the dogs salivation to meat powder
The dog started to salivate when he heard his footsteps
Pavlov wanted to use a more consistent stimulus so he used his wife’s metronome
The dog salivated to the metronome (conditioned reflex)
What is an Unconditioned Stimulus and an Unconditioned Response
Unconditioned Stimulus = stimulus that naturally elicits a response without conditioning (meat powder)
Unconditioned Response = response that is unconditioned (salivation)
What is a Conditioned Stimulus and a Conditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus = a stimulus that has been conditioned to create a response (sound of footsteps or metronome)
Conditioned Response = response elicited by a conditioned stimulus (salivation)
What is “Trace Conditioning”
when the neutral stimulus (like the metronome before it is brought in) is presented before the unconditioned stimulus (meat powder)
they do not overlap in time
What is “Delayed Conditioning”
The NS comes before the US but they overlap “a little”
What is “Simultaneous Conditioning”
When the NS and US are presented at the same time
What is “Backward Conditioning”
The us is presented before the NS
What is High-Order Conditioning
The idea that if a NS is paired with an already CS a number of times, the NS becomes a CS as well, and elicits the same CR
