Conditioning and Learning

Conditioning and Lear

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Autoshaping
Movement toward and possibly contact with a stimulus that signals the availability of a positive reinforce, such as food. Also called sign tracking
Backward conditioning
A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus is presented shortly after the unconditioned stimulus on each trial
Compound-stimulus test
A test procedure that identifies a stimulus as a conditioned inhibitor if that stimulus reduces the responding elicited by a conditioned excitatory stimulus. Also called summation test
Conditional or Conditioned Response (CR)
The response that comes to be made to the conditioned stimulus as a result of classical conditioning
Conditional or Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
A stimulus that does not elicit a particular response initially, but comes to do so as a result of becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned Emotional Response (CER)
Suppression of positively reinforced instrumental behavior (e.g., lever pressing for food pellets) caused by the presentation of a stimulus that has become associated with an aversive stimulus. Also called conditioned suppression
Conditioned Suppression
Suppression of positively reinforced instrumental behavior (e.g., lever pressing for food pellets) caused by the presentation of a stimulus that has become associated with an aversive stimulus. Also called Conditioned Emotional Response
Conditioning Trial
A training episode involving presentation of a conditioned stimulus with (or without) an unconditioned stimulus
CS-US interval
The amount of time that elapses between presentations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) during a classical conditioning trial. Also called Interstimulus Interval
Evaluative Conditioning
Changing the hedonic value or liking of an initially neutral stimulus by having that stimulus associated with something that is already liked or disliked
Explicitly unpaired control
A procedure in which both conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are presented, but with sufficient time between them so that they do not become associated with each other
Inhibitory Conditioning
A type of classical conditioning in which the conditioned stimulus becomes a signal for the absence of the unconditioned stimulus
Interstimulus interval
The amount of time that elapses between presentations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) during a classical conditioning trial. Also called the CS-US interval
Intertrial interval
The amount of time that elapses between two successive trials
Latency
The time elapsed between a stimulus (or the start of a trial) and the response that is made to the stimulus