PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Radiography, Contiguity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Extinction, spontaneous recovery, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination: Pavlov and his associates then explored 5 major conditioning processes: Acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination: acquisition (us cs) Through higher-order conditioning, a new ns can become a new cs. It just has to become associated with a previously conditioned stimulus: tends to be weaker than first-order conditioning, extinction (cs) Extinction: when the cs is no longer paired with us and the cr gradually weakens and disappears: spontaneous recovery (cs) Generalization: the tendency to respond like-wise to stimuli similar to the cs; elicits a cr: the more similar, the more likely it will be generalized, can be adaptive, and fears can linger. Pavlov and students noticed that a dog conditioned to the sound of one tone also responded somewhat to the sound of a new and different tone: discrimination. Discrimination: is the learned ability to distinguish between a cs and other irrelevant stimuli: only the original cs elicits the cr.