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PSY 200
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/08/2010

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Simple Learning

Classical Conditioning 

Pavlovian Conditioning 

Definition
The process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli- a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response
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Unconditioned Stimulus
Definition

 

an event that automatically elicits an unconditioned response 

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Unconditioned Response 

Definition

 

 

an action that the unconditional stimulus elicits

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Conditioned Stimulus 

Definition

 

the new association with the unconditioned stimulus that elicits the conditioned response

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Conditioned Response 

Definition
whatever response the conditioned stimulus begins to elicit as a result of the conditioning
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An alarm clock faintly clicks before it goes off; initially, the clicking does not affect you but eventually, you awake at the sound of it. 

Name the UCS, the UCR, the CS, and the CR.

Definition

UCS: Alarm

UCR: Awakening

CS: Clicking

CR: Awakening

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You go to a blue building to get chemotherapy. The chemo makes you nauseous. After a while, the sight of the the building makes you nauseous. Name the UCS, the UCR, the CS, and the CR.
Definition

UCS: Chemo

UCR: Nausea

CS: Sight of the building

CR: Nausea

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Acquisition 

Definition

 

The process that establishes or strengthens a conditioned response; the rise in the amount of response before the extinction 

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Extinction

Definition
after discontinuing the conditioned stimulus (discontinuing the reinforcement), the organism will discontinue the response; the decline in the conditioned response 
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Spontaneous Recovery

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the temporary return of an extinguished response after a delay

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