PSYC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning, Edward C. Tolman, Little Albert Experiment
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Unconditional stimulus (ucs: an event that regularly elicits a certain response without having been learned. Unconditional response (reflex: response elicited by ucs. Conditional stimulus (cs: previously neutral stimulus; elicited no response beyond orienting response. Conditional response (cr: response to cs. The conditional response does not equal the unconditional response; they are quantitatively and qualitatively different. Acquisition: we gradually learn (acquire) the conditional response, as the conditional and unconditional stimuli are paired closer and closer, the. Extinction: the conditional response decreases in magnitude and eventually disappears when the. Conditional stimulus is presented without the unconditional stimulus. Stimulus generalization: conditional stimuli which are similar but not identical to the original cs elicit a similar. Stimulus discrimination: we exhibit a less pronounced conditional response to conditional stimuli that differ from the original cs, ex. We don"t panic as much watching a shark attack on tv as seeing one in real life.
