PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: tucker

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Natural pairing/learning: unconditioned stimulus (us) is a stimulus that elicits a specific respose without prior learning, unconditioned response (ur) is a response that is invariably elicited by the unconditioned stimulus without prior learning. Element to be learned: a neutral stimulus does not naturally produce the desired ur. Successful learning: after repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus starts to elicit the desired ur,. Now the neutral stimulus is called the conditioned stimulus (cs) because it elicits a newly learned response, which is called the conditioned response (cr). Extinction: a weakening of the newly learned cr ands itrs eventual disappearance due to repeated presentation of the cs without the us. Spontaneous recovery: the reappearance of an extinguished response following re- exposure to the original cs after a rest period. Generalization: the tendency to make a cr to a stimulus that is similar to the original. Discrimination: occurs when the cr is made to the original cs but not to other, similar stimuli.