Psychology

Front 1

What research is Pavlov known for?

Back 1

Associated learning and classical conditioning.

Front 2

Why is Pavlov's work important?

Back 2

Pavlovs conditioning principles generalize to many species and are applicable to humans, especially to the learning of emotions such as fear. His objecive methods illustrated how psychology could proceed as a science

Front 3

Classical conditioning involves what?

Back 3

UCS (unconditional stimulus)- a stimulus that unconditionally-naturally and automatically - triggers response.

UCR- (unconditional response)In classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus, such as salivation when food is in the mouth

CS-i (conditioned stimulus) n classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

CR (conditional response) in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously lneutral conditioned stimulus.

Front 4

Define the following terms:

Spontaneous recovery
Generalization
discrimination

Back 4

Spontaneous recovery - the reappearance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response

Generalization - tendency once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar tothe conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

Discrimination - Learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditoned stimulus

Front 5

Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour due to_______?

Back 5

Learning