PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Natural Selection, Latent Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion
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Classical conditioning a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Pavlov"s psychic reflex came to be called the conditioned reflex. In tribute to the discovery of classical condition by ivan pavlov, it is sometimes called pavlovian conditioning. The unconditioned stimulus (ucs) a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. The unconditioned response (ucr) and unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. The conditioned stimulus (cs) is a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. The conditioned response (cr) is a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Conditioned response have traditionally been characterized as reflexes and are said to be elicited (drawn forth) because most of them are relatively automatic or involuntary.
