PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment
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Association of 2 stimuli: begins with a reflex, pair a neutral stimulus with the stimulus thatevokes that reflex, neutral stimulus will soon evoke the reflex onits own. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs: effective stimulus that unconditionally automatically & naturally triggers a response. Unconditioned response (ucr: automatic response to the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs: previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr: learned response to a previously neutral conditioned stimulus. Acquisition: the initial stage of learning, during which a response is established & gradually strengthened. I. e. , the phase in which a stimulus comes to evoke a cr. Extinction: when a ucs does not follow a cs the cr is diminished. Spontaneous recovery: reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished cr. Generalization: tendency for a stimuli similar to cs to evoke similar responses. E. g. , watson & rayner"s (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:895) little albert study.
