PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Sunscreen, Contiguity
2 Nov 2016
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Learning: when experiences lead you to know new info, possess new skills, or demonstrate new behaviors. Experience: results to learning and permanent change in behavior or knowledge. Associative learning: linking things in the environment together. Classical conditioning: learning to associate a neutral (meaningless) stimulus in our environment with a different, meaningful stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: learned signals; a previously neutral or meaningless signal, that begins to produce a response after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response: learned reaction: delay conditioning: the conditioned stimulus (cs) should start just before (~0. 5 sec) and overlap a bit with the unconditioned stimulus (us) occurs, so that it is indeed predicting the occurrence of the us. Stimulus generalization: things that are similar to the conditioned stimulus (cs) also produce the conditioned response (cr) Stimulus extinction: occurs when the same signal no longer produces the same response.
