PSYB45H3 Chapter 3: Respondent Conditioning of Reflexive Behaviour
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Psyb45 chapter 3 respondent (classical, pavlovian) conditioning of. Behavioural principles and procedures are essentially ways of manipulating stimuli in order to influence behaviour. Respondent behaviours: behaviours elicited by prior stimuli and are not affected by their consequences: reflexive behaviours, example: salivating when smelling dinner cooking. Respondent behaviours are influenced by respondent conditioning, which is based on unconditioned reflexes: unconditioned reflex: stimulus-response relationship in which a stimulus automatically elicits a response apart from any prior learning. An unconditioned reflex consists of a us and a ur. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that elicits a response without prior learning or conditioning. Unconditioned response (ur): a response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus. Principle of respondent conditioning: if an ns is followed closely in time by a us that elicits a. Ur, then the previous ns will also tend to elicit the response of salivation in the future: example: ns (opening motif of beetho(cid:448)e(cid:374)"s fifth.
