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10/07/2015

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learning
Definition
a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
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habituation
Definition
an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.
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associate learning
Definition
learning that keratin occur together. The events may be two stimulus or a response and its consequences
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classical conditioning
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a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
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unconditioned stimulus
Definition
in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers a response.
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unconditioned response
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in learned classical conditioning, the unleaded naturally occurring response to be unconditioned stimulus (us), such as salivation when food is in the mouth
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conditioned response
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in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.
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conditioned stimulus
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in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that , after association with an unconditioned response.
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acquisition
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in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditional response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of reinforced response.
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high order conditioning
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a process in which conditioned stimulus in conditioning experience paired with an new neutral stimulus, creating a second condition stimulus.For example, an animal that has learned that a tone predicts food might then learn that a light predicts the tone and begins responding the light alone.
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extinction
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the diminishing of conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus do not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in operant conditioning when response is no longer reinforced.
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spontaneous recovery
Definition
the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
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