PSYCH 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Prefrontal Cortex, Latent Inhibition, Observational Learning
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Learning: change in an organism"s behavior or thought as a result of experience. Habituation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Classical conditioning: form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits a response. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned response: automatic response to a nonneutral stimulus that does not need to be learned. Conditioned response: response previously associated with a non-neutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning. Condition stimulus: initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with an unconditioned stimulus. Acquisition: learning phase during which a conditioned response is established. Extinction: gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned response after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the conditioned stimulus. Spontaneous recovery: sudden reemergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay in exposure to the conditioned stimulus.
