PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Interference Theory, Applied Behavior Analysis

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Christopher Mazurek

Document Summary

Learning - any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Maturation - a kind of change that is due to biology, not experience. Reflex - an unlearned, involuntary response that is not under personal control or choice stimulus - any object, event, or experience that causes a response. Classical conditioning - learning to elicit an involuntary, reflex-like, response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response unconditioned stimulus - the original, naturally occurring stimulus. This is the stimulus that ordinarily leads to the involuntary response. In the case of pavlov"s dogs, this is the food unconditioned response - the automatic and involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus. It is unlearned and occurs because of genetic wiring in the nervous system. Neutral stimulus - stimulus that has no effect. Conditioned stimulus - the previously neutral stimulus that has become learned.