classsical conditioning Flashcards

1166781981	Association	Learned connections between different people, things and events	0
1166781982	Unconditional Stimulus	a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically- triggers a response	1
1166781983	Conditioned Stimulus	an originally irrelevent stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US) comes to trigger a conditioned response	2
1166781984	Unconditioned REsponse	the unlearned, naturally occuring stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth	3
1166781985	Conditioned Response	the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus	4
1166781986	Extinction	The gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of the CR •Involves repeatedly presenting the CS w/o pairing it with the UCS	5
1166781987	Generalizations	the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses	6
1166781988	Discrimination	the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevent stimuli.	7
1166781989	Spontaneous Recovery	Occurs when a previously extinguished CR suddenly reappears after a period of no training	8
1166781990	Higher-Order Conditioning	You learn what comes before the conditioning	9
1166781991	Taste Aversion-	associating the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance.	10
1166781992	Learned Helplessnes	he hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.	11