PSY100Y5 Chapter 6: Psych Chapter 6
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Any relative durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. The unconditioned stimulus (ucs) produces the unconditioned response (ucr), but the neutral stimulus (ns) does not. The neutral stimulus is paired with the unconditioned stimulus. The neutral stimulus alone produces the response; the neutral stimulus is now a conditioned stimulus (cs), and the response to it is a conditioned response (cr) Learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Term conditioning comes from pavlov"s determination to discover the (cid:498)conditions(cid:499) that provide this kind of learning. Example a dog is in a harness. A tone is used as the conditioned stimulus stimulus (ucs). The tube inserted into the dog"s salivary gland allows precise. Responsible for turning psychology into a more objective, scientific approach.
