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Ch. 7 - Classical Conditioning
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2013

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Classical Conditioning
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____ occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response.
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Example of Classical Conditioning
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Pavlov's experiment on dogs.
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Unconditioned Stimulus
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Something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism.
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Unconditioned Response
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Reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus.
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Conditioned Stimulus
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A stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism.
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Conditioned Response
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A reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus.
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Acquistion
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The phase of classical conditioning when the CS and the US are presented together.
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Second-Order Conditioning
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Conditioning where the stimulus that functions as the US is actually the CS from an earlier procedure in which it acquired its ability to produce learning.
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Extinction
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The gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the US is no longer presented.
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Spontaneous Recovery
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The tendency of a learned behavior to recover from extinction after a rest period.
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Generalization
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The CR is observed even though the CS is slightly different from the original one used during acquisition.
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Discrimination
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The capacity to distinguish between similar but distinct stimuli.

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