Habituation, Sensory Adaptation, and Associative Learning

ch 6 psy 21 exam 2

Habituation

a decrease in behavioral response after repeated exposure to a stimulus that has no important consequence

Sensory Adaptation

Reduced sensitivity of sensory receptors or sensory pathways during continued stimulation

Associative Learning

learning relationships between events or between actions and their consequences

Conditioning

a process through which experience produces learned associations; classical and operant conditioning are two forms

Habituation concerns…

how you respond to a repeated stimulus

Sensory adaptation…

concerns sensory responsiveness

Conditioning is…

a way associative learning occurs