PSY BEH 11B Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Vocabulary
26 May 2016
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A response pattern in which an organism evaluates a reward relative to other available rewards or those that have been available recently. blocking effect. A result showing that an animal learns nothing about a stimulus if the stimulus provides no new information. classical conditioning. A form of learning in which one stimulus is paired with another so that the organism learns a relationship between the stimuli. compensatory response. A response that offsets the effects of the upcoming unconditioned stimulus. conditioned response (cr) A response elicited by an initially neutral stimulus the conditioned stimulus (cs) after it has been paired repeatedly with an unconditioned stimulus (us). See also conditioned stimulus (cs), unconditioned response (ur), unconditioned stimulus (us). conditioned stimulus (cs) An initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a new response due to pairings with the unconditioned stimulus. See also conditioned response (cr), unconditioned response (ur), unconditioned stimulus (us). discrimination.
