PSY 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1: Behaviorism, Drug Tolerance, Classical Conditioning
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Stimulus response psychology: the attempt to explain a behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response. Assumed that animals are born with automatic connections (unconditioned reflexes) between a stimulus such as food and a response such as secreting digestive juices. Classical conditioning/ pavlovian conditioning: the process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli: a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): an event that automatically elicits and unconditioned response. Unconditioned response (ucr): the action that the unconditioned stimulus elicits. Conditioned stimulus (cs): the response to something depends on the preceding conditions. Conditioned response (cr): whatever response the conditioned stimulus elicits as a result of the conditioning procedure. Acquisition: the process that establishes or strengthens a conditioned response: extinction. Decrease of the conditioned response: to extinguish, repeatedly present the conditioned stimulus (cs) without the unconditioned stimulus, spontaneous recovery.
