PS102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph E. Ledoux, 18 Months, Semantic Network
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Description o a type of learning in which a stimulus. Operant conditioning: a type of learning in which responses come to be acquires the capacity to evoke a response originally evoked by another, classical conditioning was pioneered by ivan. Emotional responses (fears) and physiological responses (immunosuppression) and pigeons tend to repeat responses that are followed by favorable outcome: mainly regulates voluntary, spontaneous responses, such as studying, going to work, telling jokes, and asking someone out. 1 acquisition is the formation of a conditioned response tendency. 2 extinction is the gradual weakening of a conditioned response tendency. 3 generalization occurs when an organism responds to new stimulus besides the original stimulus. 4 discrimination occurs when an organism does not respond to other stimuli that resemble the original stimulus. 5 discriminative stimuli are cues that influence operant behaviour by indication the probable consequences of a response.
