PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Sexual Arousal, Fear Conditioning, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Megan Mc Carthy

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Acquisition: initial phase of learning where a response rate is established. Classical conditioning: learning when a stimulus elicits a response originally caused by another stimulus. Conditioned drug tolerance: cues that accompany drug use can become a conditioned stimuli so over time, more of the drug will be needed to override prepared responses for the desired effect. Conditioned emotional responses: develop to a specific object/situation (see fear conditioning) Conditioned response: learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response due to pairing. Conditioned taste aversion: disgust associated with the illness it was paired with. Conditioning: during which weak synapses fire at the same time as related strong synapses and strengthens the connections between weaker synapses. Discrimination: when one learns to respond to the original stimulus but not a new similar stimulus. Extinction: loss of a conditioned stimulus when the conditioned and unconditioned no longer occur together.