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3666935243Ivan Pavlovdiscovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell0
3666939416classical conditioningConditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus, by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response, comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning1
3666941247stimulusA signal to which an organism responds2
3666946002discriminationIn classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.3
3666951706perspectiveA point of view a mental view or outlook4
3666961900spontaneous recoverythe reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response5
3666970360generalizationIn classical conditioning, the process by which two distinct but similar stimuli come to produce the same response.6
3666976093extinctionDisappearance of the conditioned response.7
3666979732reinforcementIn operant conditioning, any event that strengthens the behavior it follows8
3666988972punishmentA consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior.9

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