PSY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Procedural Memory, Explicit Memory, Semantic Memory
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Psychologists define learning as a relatively enduring change in behavior or thinking that results from our experiences. Previously neutral stimuli didn"t do anything in the past until exposed to. Sounds you did not respond to now make you feel a type of way. Pavlov"s dogs salivated in anticipation of being fed. Events cued the dogs that feeding was imminent. Pairing association of two stimuli that trigger this. Bell (paired with food first(us) until just the bell causes salivation, then it will be called a cs) The initial learning of a conditioned response (cr) Learning curve shows how quickly learning takes place. Cs is repeatedly presented without the us formula. The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response (cr) The tendency for stimuli similar to the original cs to elicit a cr. Organism learns to responds to more than on cs with a cr. Kid who is afraid of barney could be afraid of something else purple!
