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behaviorism: Respondent Conditioning

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operant behavior
controlled by their consequences
operant conditioning
involves the manipulation of consequences
respondent behaviors
controlled by an antecedent stimuli
respondent conditioning
involves the manipulation of antecedent stimuli
unconditioned responses
elicited by antecedent stimuli even with no prior conditioning or learning
unconditioned stimuli
elicits an unconditioned response
neutral stimuli
does not elicit an unconditioned response
conditioned stimuli
neutral stimuli paired with an unconditioned stimuli to elicit the previous unconditioned response (now conditioned)
conditioned response
behavior elicited to a previously neutral stimuli after conditioning has occurred.
trace conditioning
desirable; NS precedes the US, but the NS ends before the US is presented.
delay conditioning
desirable, the NS is presented and then the US is presented before the NS ends.
simultaneous conditioning
not very desirable; both the NS and US are presented together
backward conditioning
the US is presented before the NS. Not very effective. (unless in the case of taste aversion)
taste aversion
exception to time response in conditioning, bad taste may result from bad UR to food, even if it occurs minutes or hours later.
Higher-order conditioning
occurs when a NS is paired with an already-established CS and the NS becomes a CS. Depends on how established the CS is before being paired with an NS.
conditioned-emotional responses
Little Albert; conditioning fear/love/rage, can occur for positive or negative things. Girlfriends smell, babies smile, etc.
respondent extinction
involves the repeated presentation of the CS without presenting the US. Lack of pairing will weakening and eventually eliminate the conditioned response.
spontaneous recovery
when the CS elicits the CR after extinction has seemingly occurred
generalization
a number of similar CSs or a broader range of CSs elicit the same CR, though only one was conditioned for
discrimination
being able to discriminate between similar CSs and only have the CR occur for a specific CS.
factors influencing RC
- nature of the US and CS (intensity)
- temporal relationship between CS and US (time)
- contingency between CS and US (consistency)
- the number of pairings
- previous exposure to the CS
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