PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Classical Conditioning, Dog Bite, Discrimination Testing
16 Apr 2016
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Classical conditioning: allows us to associate two related events. An organism is able to respond to a signal (stimuli) before an event occurs. For example, a dog presented with a conditional stimuli may salivate even before he is given food. For example, salivating may make digestive processes easier: the learning of a contingency between a particular signal and a later event that are paired in time and/ or space. Every time the metronome was activated, the dog was presented with food: eventually, the dog learned to associate the rhythm of the metronome with food and salivated even when no food was presented. (conditional reflex) Contingencies form when an animal learns to associate a signal to a specific event: the presentation of one stimulus leads to the presentation of another one. Unconditional stimulus: naturally/automatically triggers a response without any learning required. Unconditional response: the response that naturally occurs when an unconditional.
