PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ice Cream Van, Dog Bite, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Charles Dofour

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Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist (person who studies the workings of the body) who discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs. Classical conditioning: learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary response: unconditioned: unlearned, naturally occurring. Unconditioned response (ucr): an involuntary response to a naturally occurring on unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response (cr): learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus: sometimes called a conditioned reflex, cs: ice cream truck, cr: salivation when one hears ice cream truck bell. Cs (bunny rabbit) ucs (loud noise) ucr (startle) The cs is usually some stimulus that is distinctive or stands out from other competing stimuli stimulus generalization: the tendency to respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response.