PSYC 2000 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Week 4
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Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice (brain physically changes to record what is learned) Classical conditioning: learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): naturally occurring stimulus that. Unconditioned response (ucr): involuntary response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs): stimulus that becomes able to produce a learned reflex by being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Neutral stimulus: doesn"t produce a reflexive response, a cs before being conditioned. Conditioned response (cr): learned reflex response to a. 4 principles of acquisition in classical conditioning. Neutral stimulus needs to come before the unconditioned. Time between the two stimuli should be close (. 5 - 5 sec) Pairing needs to occur several times (often many) The cs usually needs to be distinctive or stands out from other competing stimuli.
