PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Immunosuppression, Latent Learning
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Phobias - irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Classical conditioning - type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capactity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us) - stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response (ur) - unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning evoke a conditioned response through conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs) - previously neutral stimulus that has capacity to. Conditioned response (cr) - learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that. Emotional responses like fear can be conditioned (ex. Emotional albert in occurs because of previous conditioning. Can affect physiological processes like immunosuppression giving animals medicine for a while, then giving them a placebo but it still has the same effect that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli. Evaluative conditioning - changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing. Acquisition - initial stage of learning something.
