PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Robert A. Rescorla, Overjustification Effect, Enculturation
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Experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Classical conditioning: one thing leads to another classical conditioning. When a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Pavlov"s experimental setup involved dogs in a harness to administer the foods and to measure the salivary response unconditioned stimulus (us) unconditioned response (ur) Something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. A reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus. Make the dogs salivate to stimuli that don"t usually make animals salivate conditioned stimulus (cs) A stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism. conditioned response (cr) A reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus. The gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the us is no longer presented. the conditioned response is extinguished and no longer observed.
