PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amygdala, Caffeine, Doorbell

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Unconditioned stimulus (us; ucs) (a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. The stimulus is the thing the food, the rain, its outside your body. What comes out of your body, how you react (a reflexive response elicited. Conditioned stimulus (cs) an entity outside your body that makes you do something, if and only is you learn it . so like a bell, Conditioned response (cr) the bell makes the dogs salivate for food (cuz they learned it) Looking at a party on an ad for alcohol makes us think oh wow that looks like fun, so it gives us a good feeling. Once a response has been conditioned, the tendency to respond in a similar way to stimuli similar to the cs. The learned ability to distinguish between a cs and other similar stimuli that do not signal a us. Distinguishes between the voices and doesn"t have a response.