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16 Cards in this Set
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Learning
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a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience.
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Unconditioned Stimulus
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Before conditioning, food is... and produces salivation.
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Unconditioned Response
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salivation is considered...
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neutral stimulus
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tone that does nothing...
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Conditioned Stimulus
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After conditioning, the neutral stimulus
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Conditioned Response
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what is elicited after conditioning.
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Acquisition
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the initial learning stage in classical conditioning in which an association between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus takes place.
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the neutral stimulus needs to come before the unconditioned stimulus.
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which must come before the other in conditioning .
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about half a second
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The time in between the two stimuli should be ...
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higher-order conditioning
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a previously conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a new (often weaker) conditioned stimulus
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extinction
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When the US (food) does not follow the CS (tone), CR (salivation) begins to decrease and eventually causes
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Spontaneous Recovery
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After a rest period... if the CS (tone) persists alone, the CR becomes extinct again.
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Generalization
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Tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the CS is called...
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Discrimination
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the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that are similar to it...
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Pavlov
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suggested that learning by association is a passive process
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Pavlov and Watson
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believed that laws of learning were similar for all animals. Therefore, a pigeon and a person do not differ in their learning.
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