PSY 150A1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory
27 Oct 2016
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Chapter 6: learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior that is brought about by experience. Be able to describe the famous research of ivan pavlov. Be sure to include the following terms: unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response: ivan pavlov was a russian physiologist. He had been studying the secretion of stomach acid and salvation in response to varying amounts/kinds of foods. Describe how the following terms apply to classical conditioning: acquisition, extinction, stimulus generalization, stimulus discrimination. Extinction: a basic phenomenon of learning that occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears. To produce extinction, one needs to end the association between conditioned stimuli and unconditioned stimuli (eg. ringing bell and not providing meat) Stimulus discrimination: the process that occurs if two stimuli are sufficiently distinct from one another that one evokes a conditioned response but the other does not: the ability to differentiate between stimuli (eg.
