PSY1011 Study Guide - Neural Adaptation, Retina, Nomothetic
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Classical conditioning: form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Conditioned stimulus (cs): initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with ucs. Unconditioned response (ucr): automatic response to a non-neutral stimulus that doesn"t need to be learned. Conditioned response (cr): response previously associated with non-neutral stimulus that is elicited by neutral stimulus through conditioning. Repeated pairing of ucs and cs increasing the cr"s strength. Extinction: the cr decreases and eventually disappears when the cs is repeatedly presented without the ucs. Spontaneous recovery: a seemingly extinct cr reappears if we present the cs again. Stimulus generalization: cs"s that are similar but not identical to the original cs elicit a cr. Higher order conditioning: process by which organisms develop classically conditioned responses to.
