PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Latent Learning, Observational Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Connie Hanrietty- Church

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List and explain the four components and the major principals of classical conditioning. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. Unconditioned response (ur): a reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning. Conditioned stimulus (cs): an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response (cr): a response that is elicited by conditioned stimulus. Extinction: the weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response; it occurs when the cs is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus. Higher-order conditioning: a procedure in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus. Stimulus generalization: the tendency to respond to a stimulus that resembles one involved in the original conditioning. Fear and taste aversion can be classically conditioned, just like anything else, by associating it with a bad experience.