PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Classical conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Unconditioned response: a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: a once neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response: the learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. Acquisition: the initial phase of learning in which a response is established. Extinction: the loss or weakening of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus no longer occur together. Generalization: a process in which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to a different though similar stimuli.