PSYCH 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-8: Heritability, Availability Heuristic, Episodic Memory
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Learning is any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning involves learning associations between events that occur in an organisms". Phobias are irrational fears of speci c objects or situations. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Attempt to explain aspects of emotion, temperament, neuroses, and language. The unconditional stimulus (us) is a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. The unconditioned response (ur) is a unlearned reaction to an unconditional stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. The conditioned stimulus (cs) is a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. The conditioned response (cr) is a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Trial in classical conditioning consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.
