PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Reinforcement
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Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a reflexive response because it has become associated with a stimulus that already produces a response, key terms, unconditioned stimulus (us, unconditioned response (ur, conditioned stimulus (cs, conditioned response (cr, acquisition: the gradual formation of an association between the conditioned, extinction: a process in which the conditioned response is weakened when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimuli, spontaneous recovery: a process in which a previously extinguished response re emerges following presentation of the conditioned stimulus, stimulus generalization: occurs when stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus produce the conditioned response, stimulus discrimination: a differentiation between two similar stimuli when only one of them is consistently associated with the unconditioned stimulus, second order conditioning: when something is consistently paired with the conditioned stimulus, without the unconditioned stimulus, and leads to a conditioned response.
