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Learning
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Any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience
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Conditioning
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Involves learning associations between events that occur in an organism's environment
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Classical conditioning
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A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus (Pavlovian conditioning)
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Unconditioned stimulus (US)
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A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning
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Unconditioned response (UR)
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An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning
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Conditioned stimulus (CS)
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A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response
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Conditioned response (CR)
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A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning
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Elicited
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Drawn forth (in regards to conditioned responses in classical conditioning)
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Trial
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Any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli in classical conditioning
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Acquisition
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Refers to the initial stage of learning a new response tendency
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Extinction
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The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency
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Spontaneous recovery
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The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus
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Renewal effect
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If a response is extinguished in a different environment than it was acquired, the extinguished response will reappear if the animal is returned to the original environment where the acquisition took place
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Stimulus generalization
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Occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus responds in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus
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Stimulus discrimination
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Occurs when an organism that has learned a response to a specific stimulus does not respond in the same way to new stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus
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