PS102 Chapter : psych102EileenWood.docx
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Learning: is a any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning: involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. The unconditioned stimulus: is a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. The unconditioned response: is an unlearned reaction to an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. The conditioned stimulus: is a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. The conditioned response: is a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Evaluative conditioning: refers to changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli.
