PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Latent Inhibition
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Change in an organisms behavior or thought as a result of experience. Responding more strongly to a stimuli that is dangerous, annoying or both overtime. Process of responding less strongly overtime to repeated stimuli. Form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that has been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Automatic response to a non-neutral stimulus that does not need to be learned. Response previously associated with a non-neutral stimulus that is elicted by a neutral stimulus through conditioning. Initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with an unconditioned stimulus. Dog introduced to food and therefore starts salivating. The dog hearing the sound of the bell and seeing the food/being fed right after. The dog hearing the sound of the bell alone and knows that food is coming. The dog salivating because he hears the sound of the bell and knows that food is coming.
