PSY 105 : Terms for Chapters 5,6,7,8,11,12,15
12 Apr 2011
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Learning: some experiences that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Habituation: a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in reduction in responding. Classical conditioning: when a neutral stimulus evokes a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally evokes the response. (e. g ivan pavlov dog & bell stimulus) Unconditioned stimulus (us): something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. (e. g food[stimuli] makes a dog salivate) Unconditioned response (ur): a reflexive reaction that is reliably elicited by an unconditioned stimulus. (e. g: the salivation [response] to the food) Conditioned stimulus (cs): a stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism. (e. g bell) Conditioned response (cr): a reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus. Acquisition: the phase of classical conditioning when the cs and the us are presented together.
