PSYC 1000 Chapter 6: Chapter 6

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Classical conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that elicits a reflective response without learning. Unconditioned responses (ur): a reflective, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a once-neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response (cr): the learned response the occurs to the conditioned stimulus. The us triggers the ur, represented by a strong neural connection between groups of neurons in the temporal lobe of the brain. When a weak connection between neurons is stimulated at the same time as a strong connection (cs and us), the weak connection becomes strengthened. Conditional emotional responses: consists of emotional and physiological responses that develop to a specific object or situation.