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classsical conditioning Flashcards

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1166781981AssociationLearned connections between different people, things and events0
1166781982Unconditional Stimulusa stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically- triggers a response1
1166781983Conditioned Stimulusan originally irrelevent stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US) comes to trigger a conditioned response2
1166781984Unconditioned REsponsethe unlearned, naturally occuring stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth3
1166781985Conditioned Responsethe learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus4
1166781986ExtinctionThe gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of the CR •Involves repeatedly presenting the CS w/o pairing it with the UCS5
1166781987Generalizationsthe tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses6
1166781988Discriminationthe learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevent stimuli.7
1166781989Spontaneous RecoveryOccurs when a previously extinguished CR suddenly reappears after a period of no training8
1166781990Higher-Order ConditioningYou learn what comes before the conditioning9
1166781991Taste Aversion-associating the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance.10
1166781992Learned Helplessneshe hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.11

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