PSYC104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Latent Inhibition, Latent Learning, Classical Conditioning
17 May 2018
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Weeks 4 & 5 – Chapter 6: Learning
- Leaig: hage i a ogais’s ehaiou o thought as a esult of epeiee
- Habituation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli
- Classical conditioning: form of learning in which animals come to respond to a
previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with anyone stimulus that elicits an
automatic response
o Unconditioned stimulus (UCS): stimulus that elicits an automatic response
o Unconditioned response (UCR): automatic response to a non-neutral stimulus
that does not need to be learned
o Conditioned response (CR): response previously associated with a non-
neutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning
o Conditioned stimulus (CS): initially neutral stimulus
o Acquisition: learning phase during which a conditioned response is
established
o Extinction: the gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned
response after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the
unconditioned stimulus
o Spontaneous recovery: sudden re-emergence of an extinct conditioned
response after a delay in exposure to the conditioned stimulus
o Renewal effect: sudden re-emergence of a conditioned response following
extinction when an animal is returned to the environment in which the
conditioned response was acquired
o Stimulus generalisation: process by which conditioned stimuli similar, but not
identical, to the original conditioned stimulus elicit a conditioned response
o Stimulus discrimination: displaying a less pronounced conditioned response
to conditioned stimuli that differ from the original conditioned stimulus
- Higher-order conditioning: developing a conditioned response to a conditioned
stimulus by virtue of its association with another conditioned
o Latent inhibition: difficulty in establishing classical conditioning to
conditioned stimulus we have repeatedly experienced alone; that is, without
the unconditioned stimulus
o Fetishism: sexual attraction to non-living things
- Opeat oditioig: leaig otolled the oseuees of the ogais’s
behaviour
- Thodike’s la of effet: piiple assetig that if a stiulus folloed a
behaviour results in a reward, the stimulus is more likely to elicit the behaviour in
the future
- Insight: grasping the nature of a problem
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Document Summary
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