PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fear Conditioning, Habituation, Little Albert Experiment
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Learning: the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Habituation: a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding. Sensitization: presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus. Classical conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Unconditioned stimulus: something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism (e. g. food in pavlov"s experiment) Unconditioned response: a reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus (e. g. salivation) Conditioned stimulus: a previously neutral stimulus that produces a reliable response in an organism after being paired with a us (e. g. bell) Conditioned response: a reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus.
