Pschology Final

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learning

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a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience

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classical conditioning

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a type of learning where a stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces a response

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stimulus

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anything in the environment that one can respond to

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response

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any behavior or action

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behaviorism

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the view that psychology should restrict its efforts to studiying observable behaviors not mental processes

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John Watson

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founder of behaviorism the view that psychology should restrict its efforts to studying observable behaviors not mental processes

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cognition

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mental processes all the mental activities asscociated with thinking knowing and remembering

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unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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in classical conditioning a stimulus that triggers a response automatically and reflexively

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unconditioned response(UCR)

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in classical conditioning the automatic response to the unconditoned stimulus

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conditional stimulus (CS)

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in classical conditioning a previously neutral stimulus that through learning has gained the power to cause a conditioned response

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condition response (CR)

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in classical conditioning the responseto the conditioned stimulus

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aquisition

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in classical conditioning the process of developing a learned response

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extinction

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in classical conditioning the diminishing of learned response when a UCS does not follow a CS

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spontaneous recovery

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reapperarance after a rest period of an extinguished conditined response

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Ivan Pavlov

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learning theorist famous for the discovery of classical conditioning

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generalization

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a process in which an organism produces different responses to 2 similiar stimuli

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discrimination

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a process in which an orgainism produces different responses to 2 similar stimuli

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Rosali Rayner

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graduate student of John Watson and co researcher for the Little Albert demonstration of classically conditioned emotion

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John Garcia

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identified the phenomenon of taste aversion which established that classical conditoning was influenced by biological predispostions

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Robert Rescorla

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developed a new theory that emphasized the importance of cognitive processes in classical conditioning