BU352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Albert Bandura, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Conditioning- learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. There are three main types of conditioning, they are : classical conditioning. A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus stimuli precede the response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs)- a stimulus that evokes an unconditional response without previous conditioning unconditioned response (ucr)- an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs)- a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response conditioned response (cr)- a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Physic reflex or conditioned reflex- most reflexes are relatively automatic or involuntary. Trial- consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli psychologists are concerned for how many trials are required to establish a particular conditioned bond.
