01:830:331 Lecture 43: lecture 43
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~learning experience changes the nervous system and thus our behavior. ~stimulus-response learning performing a specific behavior in the presence of a certain stimulus. ~an unimportant stimulus becomes an important one to the subject. ~a previously irrelevant stimulus can elicit reflex-like behavior. ~(us) unconditional stimulus normally produces the behavioral response, without any training. ~(ur) unconditional response the normal behavioral response to a stimulus, without any training. ~after the training, aka classical conditioning, happens, there is a conditional stimulus and response. ~(cs) conditional stimulus the previously irrelevant stimulus that now is associated with the uc. ~(cr) conditional response the response that happens when presented with cs, which normally only happens when presented with us (unconditional response)