PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dispositional Attribution, Learned Helplessness, Fundamental Attribution Error
18 Feb 2017
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The concept of acquired motivation is necessary for any comprehensive understanding of motivated behaviour because much behavioural difersity clearly depends on motives that are acquired or altered during the life of the organism. In the process of classical conditioning, a formerly neutral stimulus gains the ability to elicit a response from an organism because it has been associated with some other stimulus that reliable elicited that response in the past. Pavlov called the meat powder an unconditioned stimulus (ucs) to indicate that its effect on behaviour was unlearned or automatic. He called the salivation response to the meat powder an unconditioned. Response (ucr), to indicated the unlearned nature of this response to the. The bell was termed a conditioned stimulus (cs) because, though originally neutral, it developed (by associated with the ucs) the ability to elicit a response that pavlov called conditioned response (cr)
