PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operant Conditioning, Latent Inhibition
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PSY – Chapter 6 – Learning 239
Learning – change in an organism’s behaviour on thought as a result of experience
Habituation – process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli
Earliest form of learning
Sensitization – responding more strongly over time
Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning – form of learning in which animals come to respond to a
previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic
response
Neutral stimulus (NS) – what ever you are pairing with the main stimulus, (metronome)
does elicit a particular response
Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) – stimulus that elicits an automatic response (food)
Unconditioned response (UCR) – automatic response to a nonneutral stimulus that
does not need to be learned (salvation)
Conditioned response (CR) – response previously associated with a nonneutral stimulus
that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning
Conditioned stimulus (CS) – initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due
to association with an unconditioned stimulus
British associationists (1800s) school of thinkers who believed that we acquire all of our
knowledge
Associative learning – the organism reacts the same way to the previously NS as it did to the
UCS
Acquisition – learning phase during which a conditioned response is established
Extinction – gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned response after the
conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus
Spontaneous recovery – sudden re-emergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay
in exposure to the conditioned stimulus
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
Stimulus generalization – process by which conditioned stimuli similar, but not identical, to the
original conditioned stimulus elicit a conditioned response
Stimulus discrimination – process by which organisms display a less pronounced conditioned
response to conditioned stimuli that differ form the original conditioned stimulus
High-order conditioning – developing a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus by
virtue of its association with another condition stimulus
Allows us to extend classical conditioning to a host of new stimuli
Four everyday applications of classical conditioning:
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Document Summary
Learning change in an organism"s behaviour on thought as a result of experience. Habituation process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Classical (pavlovian) conditioning form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Neutral stimulus (ns) what ever you are pairing with the main stimulus, (metronome) does elicit a particular response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) stimulus that elicits an automatic response (food) Unconditioned response (ucr) automatic response to a nonneutral stimulus that does not need to be learned (salvation) Conditioned response (cr) response previously associated with a nonneutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs) initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with an unconditioned stimulus. British associationists (1800s) school of thinkers who believed that we acquire all of our knowledge.
