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Learning
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Any realitvely permanent change in behavior that can be attributed to experience. . .does not include temporary changes due to diseases, fatigue, injury, maturation, and drugs
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Classical Conditioning
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A form of learning in which reflex responses are associated with new stimuli and is known as Pavlovian conditioning
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Ian Pavlov
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Was a Russian physiologist who studied digestion. . .his famous experiment involved salivation in dogs using meat powder
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Reflex
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An innate, automatic response to a stimulus. . .Ex. eye blink
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Neutral stimulus
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A stimulus that does not evoke a response
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Conditioned stimulus
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A stimulus that evokes a response because it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus
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Unconditioned stimulus
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A stimulus capable of eliciting a response
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Unconditioned response
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An innate reflex response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus
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Conditioned response
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A learned response elicited by a conditioned stimulus
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Acquisition
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The period in conditioning during which a response is reinforced
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Higher- order conditioning
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Classical conditioning in which a conditioned stimulus is used to reinforce further learning" that is, a CS is used as if it were a US
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Extinction
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The weakening of a conditioned response through removal of reinforcement
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Spontaneous recovery
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The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction
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Stimulus generalization
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Tendency to respond to stimuli similar to, but not identical to, a conditioned stimulus. . .Ex. responding to a buzzer when the conditioning stimulus was a bell
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Stimulus discrimination
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The learned ability to respond differently to similar stimuli. . .Ex. responding to a buzzer, not as a bell or alarm when the conditioning stimulus was a buzzer
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