Psych Section 2 Exam 2

Learning involes ome experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner -over 40 kinds -conscious and deliberate, or unconscious

General process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding

It can be observed and demonstrated, goes along with behaviorist psychology

Occurs when a neutral stimulus evokes a response after being paired witht a stimulus that naturally evokes a response.

Unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response conditioned stimulus conditioned response

Unconditioned stimulus: something that will reliably produce a naturally occuring reaction (food in front of a dog)

Unconditioned response: reflexive action that is reliably elicited by an unconditioned stimulus (dog's drooling because of food)

Conditioned stimulus: stimulus that is initially neutral, and produces no reliable response but is paired with US (bell, tone presented with food)

Conditioned response: reaction that resembles the UR but is produced by only a CS (dogs drooling when they hear the bell only)

Phase when US and CS are paired together

Conditioning when the US is a stimulus that acquired its ability to produce learning from an earlier procedure (black sqaure paired with tone caused dogs to salivate even though it was never directly associated with food)

Gradual elimination of learned response that occurs when the US is no longer present

Tendency of extinct behavior to recover from extinction after rest period

Conditioning to CS is much more rapid than the first time

CR is observed even when CS is slightly different than original CS used during acquisition (cats and opening of drawers, different tone.....)