PSY 201 Ch 6 Set A: Learning (Classical Conditioning)

a relatively permanent change in behavior and understanding due to experience

recall: explained solely in terms of directly observable events; avoids organisms' unobservable mental state; only interested in stimulus - response

simplest form of learning; decrease in response to unchanging stimuli over time; Ex: you get used to background noise over time; "sensory adaptation"

making an association between two stimuli (by pairing them) such that one stimulus comes to elicit a response that originally was elicited by the other stimulus; Ivan Pavlov taught dogs to salivate to tone

Neutral Stimulus (NS), Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS), Unconditioned Response (UCR), Conditioned Stimulus (CS), Conditioned Response (CR)

a stimulus that does not naturally elicit a (the desired) response in an organism; Ex: bell/tone

not learned stimulus; a stimulus that elicits a reflexive or innate response (UCR) without prior learning; Ex: food

not learned response; a reflexive or innate response that is elicited by a stimulus (UCS) without prior learning; Ex: salivation to food

learned stimulus; a stimulus that, through association with a UCS, comes to elicit a conditioned response similar to the original UCR; neutral stimulus becomes this; Ex: bell/tone

learned response; a response elicited by a conditioned stimulus; Ex: salivation to bell/tone