PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Latent Learning, Medial Forebrain Bundle, Nucleus Accumbens
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Learning: the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Classical conditioning: when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that neutrally produces responses. Pavlov" showed that dogs learned to salivate to neutral stimuli such as a bell or a tone after that stimulus had been associated with another stimulus that naturally evokes salivation, such as food. Pavlov"s experiment four basic elements of classical conditioning: Initially presented with a plate of food, they began to salivate: unconditioned stimulus (cs): something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. Dogs" salivation: unconditioned response (ur): reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus. Make the dogs salivate to stimuli that don"t usually make animals salivate, such as the sound of a buzzer. Acquisition: the phase of classical conditioning when the cs and the us are presented together.
