Test 2-1: Classical Conditioning
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 learning | change in organism's behavior or thought as a result of experience |
| habituation | process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli |
| classical (Pavlovian or respondent) conditioning | form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response |
| conditioned stimulus (CS) | initially neutral stimulus |
| unconditioned stimulus (UCS) | stimulus that elicits an automatic response |
| unconditioned response (UCR) | automatic response to a nonneutral stimulus that does not need to be learned |
| conditioned response (CR) | response previously associated with a nonneutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning |
| acquisition | learning phase during which a conditioned response is established |
| extinction | gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned response after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus |
| spontaneous recovery | sudden reemergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay in exposure to the conditioned stimulus |
| renewal effect | sudden reemergence of a conditioned response following extinction when an animal is returned to the environment in which the conditioned response was acquired |
| stimulus generalization | process by which conditioned stimuli similar, but not identical to, the original conditioned stimulus elicit a conditioned response |
| stimulus discrimination | displaying a less pronounced conditioned response to the conditioned stimuli that differ from the original conditioned stimulus |
| higher-order conditioning | developing a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus by virtue of its association with another conditioned stimulus |
| latent inhibition | difficulty in establishing classical conditioning to a conditioned stimulus we've repeatedly experienced alone, that is, without the unconditioned stimulus |
| fetishism | sexual attraction to nonliving things |
| pseudoconditioning | an apparent conditioned response that actually turns out to be an unconditioned response to the conditioned stimulus |
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