PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Table Tennis, Video Lesson, Classical Conditioning
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Classical conditioning allows us to associate two related events. Sound of a metronome signaled to a dog that food was about to be delivered. Prior to training, the sound of the metronome has no observable effect on the dogs behavior. Following training, a dog would begin salivating in response to the sound of the metronome alone behavior was called conditional reflex. Classical conditioning: the learning of a contingency between a particular signal and a later event that are paired in time and/or space. Unconditioned stimulus (us): any stimulus or event; occurs naturally, automatically triggers a response prior to learning: eg/ pavlov dog experiment: food placed in dogs mouth. Unconditioned response (ur): the response that occurs after the us; occurs naturally, prior to any learning: often a biologically programmed reflex or natural response, eg/ pavlov dog experiment: salivation in the dogs mouth.
