Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Aspirin, Latent Learning, Aversion Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
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Learning: a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organisms behaviour or capabilities. Habituation: a decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus. Sensitization: an increase in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus. Classical conditioning: an organism learns to associate two stimuli, such that. Loud sound one stimulus comes to produce a response that originally was produced only by the other stimulus. Acquisition: the period during which a response is being learned. Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that innately elicits a response. Conditioned stimulus: a stimulus that gains value through learning. Feeling hungry when you see your favourite restaurant. Extinction: if the cs is presented repeatedly in the absence of food. Spontaneous recovery: the extinguished cr reappeared after being weakened by extinction trials. Stimulus generalization: stimuli similar to the initial cs elicit a cr. Discrimination: when a cr occurs to one stimulus but not to others.