PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Functional Analysis, Stimulus Control, Reinforcement

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Frank Marchese

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Conditioned behaviours were not innate but learned. Stimuli such as a bell and food if paired enough would lead to a stimulus--stimulus association. Since the food was innately attached to the response of salivation, the bell acquires the power to elicit the salivary reflex. Discrimination: the cr is called forth by a specific cs. Generalization: the cr is called forth by different but similar stimuli that resemble the cs. Extinction: the cs loses its power to elicit the cr. Spontaneous recovery: following extinction, the cs regains its power to call forth the cr again. Behaviour is conditionable and follows a predictable course from no cr to a reliable cr following the classical conditioning procedure. Associations: between stimuli (the cs and ucs) when established permit the cs to function alone in the eliciting of a cr. Geer"s studies of gsr (galvanic skin response) conditioning.