Psychology: Classical conditioning.

a type of learning in which an organism learns to connect or associate, stimuli.

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a type of learning in which an organism learns to connect or associate, stimuli.

Classical conditioning

Famouse Russian psychologist who started Classical conditioning.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

two types of stimuli

Unconditioned, conditioned

and two types of responses:

Unconditioned, conditioned

A stimulus that automatically produces a response without any prior learning.

Unconditioned stimulus

An unlearned response that is automatically elicited by the UCS.

Unconditioned response

A previously neutral stimulus (NS) that eventually elicits
a conditioned response after being associated with the UCS.

Conditioned stimulus

discovered that conditioning is most likely to occur when the conditioned stimulus (CS) begins about a half-second before the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) and stops at the same time as UCS.

refers to the conditioned response of an organism that applies not only to the real, original conditioned stimulus, but also to other stimuli that are alike.

Stimulus generalization

occurs when an individual is able to respond the same way to any other stimuli that are similar with the original stimuli.

Stimulus generalization