PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependent And Independent Variables, Coffee Preparation, Chemotherapy
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Learning : any relative permanent change in behavior that occurs because of experience. Conditioning : a kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and. He was a physiologist studying salivation in dogs. (salivate) The organism learns to associate two stimuli. One produces a response that originally was only produced by the other. Unconditioned stimulus (us): elicits the unconditioned response (food) Unconditioned response (ur): response which is automatically produced. Conditioned stimulus (cs): originally neutral stimulus that elicits a behavior. Conditioned response (cr): response elicited by the conditioned stimulus. Acquisition : phase of classical conditioning when the us and cs are paired. Extinction : repeat the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus after being paired with a us (bell) (salivate to bell) together over time and the conditioned response will disappear. Ex: if you repeatedly play the metronome (cs) without giving the electric shock (us), then the cr will disappear.
