PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Reward System, Observational Learning, Foodborne Illness
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Learning: any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning: involves learning associations between events that occurs in an organism"s environment. Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response: an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus: a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Conditioned response: a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Classically conditioned responses have traditionally been characterized as reflexes and are said to elicited (drawn forth) because most of them are relatively automatic or involuntary. Trial: consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.
