PSYC 1010 Chapter 6: CHAPTER 6
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Phobia: irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Learning: refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning: involves learning associations between events that occur in an organisms 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 first called pavlovian conditioning around 1900 by ian pavlov. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned 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. Conditional response (cr): a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of a previous conditioned. Trial classical conditioning: consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.