L33 Psych 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning, Fear Conditioning
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Conditioning a process in which environmental stimuli and behavioral responses become connected. Dishabituation the increase in a response because of a change in something familiar. Salivary reflex the automatic, unlearned response occurs when a food stimulus is presented to a hungry animal. A neutral stimulus unrelated to the reflex is presented along with a stimulus that reliably produces the reflex conditioning trial and test trials (repeated multiple times) Contiguity the critical element in the acquisition of a learned association is that the stimuli occur together in time. Second-order conditioning crs can be learned even without the learner ever associating the cs with the original us. The conditioned response is extinguished when the conditioned stimulus no longer predicts the unconditioned stimulus. Biological preparedness animals are genetically programmed to fear specific objects. Classical conditioning is a way that animals come to predict the occurrence of events. Prediction error difference between the expected and actual outcomes.
