PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fear Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Sunburn

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Habituation: your roommate is constantly coughing, at first it bothers you as time passes you no longer notice it. Habituation: decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus: simplest form of learning, key adapted function, control nervous system, allows organisms to attend to other stimuli that are more important. Acquisition: period during which a response is being learned: adept to environment. Scenario: you want a dog to salivate at a tone. Sounding the tone for the first time won"t get the dog to salivate but he will perk up his ears from it. At this time the tone is a neutral stimulus because it isn"t triggering the salivation response. If we put food in the dog"s mouth they will salivate, it"s a reflex. Since there is no leaning to make the food produce salivation, the food is called an unconditioned stimulus (ucs) and the salivation is an unconditioned response (ucr) reflex unlearned.