PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Immunosuppression
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Learning: any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Phobias: irrational fears of speci c objects or situations and are often the result of another learning process termed classical conditioning. Conditioning: involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus (this is also known as pavlovian conditioning) Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response: an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus: a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Conditioned response: a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Trial in classical conditioning: consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.
