01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Eureka Effect, Reinforcement, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Carl Persing

Document Summary

Learning- acquisition of info/ behavioral tendency that persists over a relatively long period of time. Habituation- learning that occurs when repeated exposure to a stimulus decreases and organism"s responsiveness to that stimulus. Classical conditioning- type of learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated w/ a stimulus that causes a reflexive behavior & in time this neutral stimulus is sufficient to elicit that behavior. Unconditioned stimulus (us)- stimulus that elicits and automatic response (ur), w/o requiring the prior learning. Conditioned stimulus (cs)- originally neutral stimulus that comes to produce a response evoked by a us after it has been paired enough time w/ that us. Unconditioned response (ur)- reflexive/ automatic response elicited by a particular stimulus. Conditioned response (cr)- response that depends on pairing the cs w/ an us; once learned, the response to the us now occurs when the cs is presented alone. Acquisition- in classical conditioning, the initial learning of the conditioned response.