PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Observational Learning, Disinhibition, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: Towson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Alexa J.Doerr

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Trace: cs before us (longer the gap, worse the association) Simultaneous: cs and us at the same time. Backward: cs is after the us (doesn"t work except taste aversion) Ucs: a stimulus that naturally brings about a particular response without having been learned (meat) Ucr: a response that is natural and needs no training (salivation at smell of food) Ns: before conditioning does not naturally being about the response of interest. Cs: once-neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus to bring about a response formerly caused only by the unconditioned stimulus (bell) Cr: after conditioning, follows a previously neutral stimulus (salivation at bell) Generalization: stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus produce the same response. Discrimination: 2 stimuli are sufficiently distinct from one another that one evokes a conditione response and the other does not. Extinction: a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears.