PS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Monosaccharide, Robert Sternberg, Brainstem
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Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. The process was first described around 1900 by ivan pavlov called pavlonian conditioning. Pavlov was one of those who was responsible for turning psychology from research focusing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection, to a more objective, rigorous, scientific approach. He de-emphasized the mind, and mentalistic accounts of behaviour and showed how learning was under the influence of experience and that associations could be built up in consciousness . His experiment was the one that jim did on dwight with the altoids in the office. Based on his insight, he built broad theory of learning that attempted to explain aspects of emotion, temperament, neuroses, and language. The unconditioned stimulus (ucs) is a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
