PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Classical Conditioning, The Automatic, Operant Conditioning

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Conditioning: the establishment of a relationship between stimuli and responses, or vice versa. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior potential as a result of experience. Reflex: a built-in or otherwise automatic response to a specific stimulus. Classical conditioning: the establishment of a relationship between two stimuli, typically one that evokes a reflex response and one that is initially neutral with regard to this response. Unconditioned stimulus: any stimulus that automatically and reliably produces a particular response. Conditioned stimulus: an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response similar to that elicited by a ucs. Unconditioned response: the automatic response to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response: the learned response to a conditioned stimulus. Delayed conditioning: the most effective version of classical conditioning, in which cs onset precedes ucs onset and the offset of both stimuli is typically at the same time.