PSYC 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Drug Tolerance
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Learning: a permanent change in behaviour, knowledge, capability, or attitude that is acquired through experience and cannot be attributed to illness, injury, or maturation. Classical conditioning: a process through which a response previously made only to a specific stimulus is made to another stimulus that has been paired repeatedly with the original stimulus. Stimulus: any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds; plural is stimuli. Reflexes: inborn, unlearned, automatic responses to certain environmental stimuli (swallowing, coughing, blinking, sucking, grasping) Conditioned reflexes: learned reflexes, as opposed to naturally occurring ones. Unconditioned response: a response that is invariably elicited by the unconditioned stimulus without prior learning. Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that elicits a specific response without prior learning. Conditioned stimulus: a neutral stimulus that, after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus, becomes associated with it and elicits a conditioned response.
