PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Cognitive Map, Headache
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Learning a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience; can be cognitive (reading to learn new info) or associative. Classical conditioning learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. Stimulus external event or cue that elicits a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) stimulus that elicits a re exive response without learning; e. g. meat powder. Unconditioned response (ur) re exive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus; e. g. salivation when seeing meat powder. 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; e. g. the bell. Conditioned response (cr) learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus; e. g. salivation in response to the bell. Conditioning has taken place when the bell elicits salivation in the absence of food. Connections between speci c groups of neurons become strengthened every time.
