PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning, Coulrophobia, France 3

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: John Campbell

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Acquisition: refers to the period during which a response is being learned. A stimulus that innately elicits a response (meaning no learning is required) i. e. food: unconditioned response (ucr) A reflexive, unlearned response to an innately important stimulus i. e. salivation in response to food: conditioned stimulus (cs) A stimulus that gains value through learning i. e. the sight of your favourite restaurant: conditioned response (cr) A response elicited by a stimulus whose importance depends on past learning i. e. feeling hungry when you see your favourite restaurant. Short delayed conditioning: cs still present when ucs present, optimal learning. Trace conditioning: gap in time separates end of cs and start of ucs. Simultaneous conditioning: cs and ucs presented at same time, slow learning. Number of pairing for the conditioned and the unconditioned stimulus. How reliability the conditioned stimulus predicts the unconditioned stimulus. The timing (temporal relationship) between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.