CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aversion Therapy, R. Neelakantan, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior of capa- bilities (knowing how). Classical conditioning ivan pavlov learn to associate two stimuli elicit evoke involuntary response/actions. One stimulus elicits a response that was originally elicited only by the other stimulus. Behavior is influenced by consequences that follow it (skinner, Stimulus that elicits a reflexive or innate response (ur) without prior learning. Stimulus, that, through association with the ucs, comes to elicit a condi- tioned response similar to the original ucr. Reflexive or innate response elicited by the ucs without prior learning. The establishing and strengthening of the cr (associating cs and ucs pairings) Process in which cs is presented in absence of ucs. After a rest period, and without any new learning trials, the reappearance of a previously extin- guished cr. Usually weaker than initial cr, extinguishes more rapidly. Stimuli similar to initial cs elicit a cr. Cr occurs to one stimulus but not to another.