PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning, Fear Conditioning
18 Apr 2017
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Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result od experience. Noticed that before meat was presented the dogs would start to salivate. Classical conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. The neutral stimulus was the sound of the tone, which was paired with meat power that could itself elicit salvation. Unconditioned stimulus: is a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Unconditioned response: is a reflexive, unlearned reaction to unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: a once neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. A conditioned response: is the learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. To establish that conditioning has taken place, the tone (cs) must elicit salivation in the absence of food. What distinguishes the ur from the cr is the stimulus that elicits them.
