PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Little Albert Experiment, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning

• School: Towson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Barbara Wilson

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Learning: a systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience. Classical conditioning: association between a stimuli and a response. Operant conditioning: association between a response and a consequence. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that brings about a response without any prior learning. Unconditioned response (ucr): unlearned response to the unconditioned stimulus (ucs) The sound of pavlov"s bell prior to pairing with the meat. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a neutral stimulus that, when associated with the unconditioned stimulus (ucs), elicits a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr): the learned response of the conditioned stimulus (c s) Ns: the sound of pavlov"s bell (prior to pairing with the meat powder) Generalization: tendency of a new stimulus to elicit a similar response. Discrimination: learning to respond to certain stimuli and not to other. Discrimination generally is learned by presenting other cs"s without the ucs. Extinction: weakening of the conditioned response (cr) in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.