PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chemotherapy, Relapse Prevention, Exposure Therapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Week five psyc*1000 introduction to psychology october 6th. Learning a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience: ex: cognitive learning and associative learning. Classical conditioning is defined as a learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused from another stimulus: acquisition is the process during the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned one. This response occurs with repeated pairings of the cs and the us. Unconditioned stimulus stimulus that elicits a reflexed response without learning. Unconditioned response reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus once neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus: conditioned response learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. During conditioning, weak synapses fire at the same time as related strong synapses. The simultaneous activity strengthens the connections in the weaker synapse.