PSYCH 101 Lecture 7: Psych 101 - LE 7
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Once a response has been conditioned, we can end it with extinction. Even well established responses can be made to diminish and eventually disappear. To cause this, the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus. The tone is sounded but no food is given. The white rat is presented but no loud noise occurs. Sometimes, with no further training and just the passage of time, a response will recur for a brief time. The response is usual weak and lasts for only a brief period. The types of stimuli used as conditioned and unconditioned stimuli do matter. Classical conditioning typically involved re exive or autonomic behaviors that are not under our direct control such as emotional reactions, salivation, eye blinks or startle responses, hence we say it is elicited . No new behavior is produced in classical conditioning. The only thing that changed is that a new conditioned stimulus is created for the particular response.
