PSY 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Alarm Clock, Dog Food, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

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2 components: stimulus: anything that evokes a reaction. Alarm clock: response: a reaction to a stimulus. Classical conditioning: acquiring a new response to a previously neutral stimulus. Paring an unconditional stimulus with a neutral stimulus that leads to a conditioned response. Before conditioning: unconditioned stimulus: something that naturally causes a response. Dog food: unconditioned response: a natural response to the unconditioned stimulus. Dog salivating: neutral stimulus: something that does not naturally cause a response. During conditioning: conditioned stimulus: something that does not naturally cause a response (neutral stimulus) Bell paired with food to evoke a response. After conditioning: conditioned response: response to the conditioned stimulus, same as the unconditioned response but reacting to the conditioned stimulus instead of the unconditioned stimulus. Operant conditioning: learning that occurs through reinforcement and punishment. Action: positive: adding something, negative: subtracting something. Result: reinforcement: encourages behavior, punishment: discourages a behavior. Gradually training a specific behavior by reinforcing and behaviors that are similar.