PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Lightning
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Principle of respondent conditioning: respondent behaviours: behaviours elicited by prior stimuli and are not affected by their consequences, ex. A thunderstorm consists of dark clouds and lightning, but lightning is always paired with thunder rather than dark clouds. Psyb45 chapter 3: respondent (classical, pavlovian) conditioning of reflexive behaviour: respondent conditioning will develop more quickly and strongly when the cs or us or both are intense rather than weak, ex. A fear of lightning is elicited much more strongly if the lightning is very bright and the thunder is very loud, than if either or both are weak. Higher-order conditioning: higher-order conditioning: procedure in which a ns becomes a cs by being paired with another cs, instead of with an us, ex. Common respondently conditioned responses: humans are born with numerous unconditioned reflexes, which are important to survival, reproduction, and day-to-day biological functioning. It is biologically adaptive for reflexive responses to be conditioned to previously neutral stimuli (susceptibility to.
