Psychology 110

Front 1

Facilitation of the conditioning of a novel stimulus because of the presence of a previously conditioned stimulus; this is a challenge to the Rescorla-Wagner model

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augementation; contra-blocking effect

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intereference with the conditioning of a novel stimulus because of htep resence of a previously conditioned stimulu

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blocking effect

Front 3

idea that conditioned responding depends on a comparison between the associative strength of the CS and associative strength of other contextual cues present during training of the target CS

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comparator hypothesis

Front 4

conditioned response similar to the unconditioned homeostatic reactions that are elicted by US

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conditioned homeostatic-response

Front 5

conditioning procedure that reverses the organism's previous response to a stimulus; reponse animal makes to CS can be reversed by pairing this stimulus with a US that promotes the opposite type of reaction

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counterconditioning

Front 6

interference with conditioning produced by repeated exposures to the CS before the conditioning trials

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CS-preexposure effect; latent-inhibition effect

Front 7

the significance or noticeability of a stimulus to the organism

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stimulus salience

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procedure in which perviously cconditioned stimulus is used to condition a new stimulus

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higher-order conditioning

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procedure in which one biologically weak stimulus CS1 is paried with another biologically weak stimulus CS2; Then cs1 is conditioned with an unconditioned stimulus and in a lter test cs2 will elicit the conditioned response even though cs2 was never paired with the unconditioned stimulus

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sensory preconditioning

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phsyiological mechanisms that serve to maintain critical aspects of the body within acceptable limits

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homeostasis

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develops when repeated administrations of a drug have profressively less effect; in conditioning, could be that drug cues become associated with US attenuate druge effects, and CR counteracts drug effects, which is why it develops

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drug tolerance

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learning of an association btween a stimulus and a response; conditioning establishes a new stimulus-response connection between CS and CR, Watson

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S-R learning

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learning of an assocation between two stimuli; subects respond to CS not because it elicits a CR but because it activates a representation of the US; Tolman

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S-S learning

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reduction i nthe attractiveness of an unconditioned stimulus, usually achieved by aversion conditioning or satiation

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US devalutaion

Front 15

idea that conditioned responding depends on how long the organism has to wait for the US in the presence of the CS compared to how long the organism has to wait for th US in the situation irrespective of the CS; CS is informatitve if the subject spends less time waiting for the US (trial duration) when the CS is present than in the experimental situation irrespective of the CS (intertrial)

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relative waiting time hypothesis

Front 16

interference with conditioning produced by repeated exposures to the undoncitioned stimulus before the conditioning trials

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US-preexposure effect

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idea that the outcome of classical conditioning is that organisms respond to the conditioned stimulus in the same that they respond to the unconditioned stimulus; wrong bcause rat example - not same response

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stimulus substitution

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omitting the US or reinforcer; involves repeated presentations of the CS by itself; CR usually declines

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extinction

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decline in conditioned responding that may ocur because of the passage of time

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forgetting

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recovery of acquisiton performance when the contextual cues present during extinction are changed

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renewal

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recovery of excitatory responding to an extinguished stimulus produced by exposures to the unconditioned stimulus

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reinstatement

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CS if informative about the occurrence of the US only if the subject has to spend less time waiting for hte US when then CS is present than in the experimental situation

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relative time hypothesis