PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Latent Inhibition, Observational Learning, Parachuting

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Kosha Bramesfeld

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* learning: a change in an organism"s behavior or thought as a result of experience. * habituation: the process by which we respond less strongly over time to repeated stimuli, good adaptive sense so that we don"t react to every little stimuli; most pose no threat. * sensitization: extended exposure leads to stronger responses as opposed to habituation. * dogs salivated not only to the meat itself but also to previously neutral stimuli that had become associated with it, such as to the researcher who brought the meat. * classical conditioning: form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that has been paired with another stimulus that creates an automatic response. * unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that creates a re exive response (ex. meat) * unconditioned response: re exive response it elicits (ex. salivation) * conditioned response: response previously associated with a non-neutral stimulus (ex. salivation)