Classical Conditioning

classical conditioning

learning by associating stimuli (a natural response to authentic experiences)

Unconditioned stimulus

what naturally triggers a UNLEARNED response (not associated)

Unconditioned response

a naturally UNLEARNED response to a stimulus

Conditioned Stimulus

something that was originally neutral, but is ASSOCIATED to trigger a conditioned response

Conditioned Response

a LEARNED response to an associated stimulus

Ivan Pavlov

studied classical conditioning using association with dogs

US

for the dogs, what is food?

CS

for the dogs, what is the bell?

UR

for the dogs after smelling food, what is their salivation?

CR

for the dogs after hearing the bell, what is their salivation?

face fears

classical conditioning is used in therapy/ trauma to help people _________

quantified

Pavlov showed that psychology can be __________ (his experiment was through observation and objective, not only based on introspection)

Acquisition

a learning phenomena; the initial stage of learning to associate two things (both classical and operant conditioning!)

Extinction

a learning phenomena; When a response stops occurring because things now appear unrelated (both classical and operant conditioning!)

Spontaneous Recovery

a learning phenomena; after extinction, a response will randomly reappear (both classical and operant conditioning!)

Generalization

a learning phenomena; the tendency for a similar stimuli to elicit a learned response (both classical and operant conditioning!)

Discrimination

a learning phenomena; a learned response is produced only to a specific stimuli (both classical and operant conditioning!)

Behaviorism

the field of psychology that believes behaviors are either innate or products of conditioning (objective science/ not focus on mental processes)

Watson

created behaviorism

Taste Aversion

the biological tendency in which an organism learns, after a SINGLE UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE, to avoid a certain food/drink with a certain flavor (think Aunt and raisins)

John Garcia

did lots of work in taste aversion (used to stop coyotes from eating sheep by making the meat taste very bad)

Higher Order Learning

a form of classical conditioning in which a conditioned stimulus is used to produce FURTHER learning, building upon with another connected stimulus

• ex. a cat hears a can open and knows food is coming, but after a while knows the can comes from the cabinet, and so reacts when hears cabinet opening