PSY-2012 Chapter ch 7: Ch 07 Learning
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Habituation: decline in the tendency to respond to an event that has become familiar through repeated presentation. Sensitization: increased responding to an event that has been repeated. Technique developed to study how simple associations form. Classical conditioning deals with behaviors that are drawn out automatically by a stimulus. A stimulus is anything that can be perceived. The stimulus does not produce a new behavior, but causes an existing reflexive behavior to occur. Used dogs as research subjects in studies of digestion. Noticed that salivation often began before food placed in their mouths. Pavlov observed that some stimuli produce automatic responses. Other stimuli can produce those same responses through a process of learning. A stimulus that automatically leads to a response prior to any training. The response that is produced automatically, prior to training, on presentation of us. Neutral stimulus that is paired with the us during classical conditioning. The learned response produced by the conditioned stimulus.
