Changes in Conditioned Responding

ch 6 psy 21 exam 2

Stimulus Generalization

responding to a stimulus that resembles a conditioned stimulus

Stimulus Discrimination

learning to respond differently to a similar stimulus, such as distinguishing your own alarm from another person’s

Extinction

a reduction in conditioned responding when the conditioned stimulus repeatedly appears without the unconditioned stimulus

Spontaneous Recovery

the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after time has passed

Blocking

an established cue prevents learning about a second cue when the second cue adds no new predictive information

Contingency

how reliable one event predicts another

Contiguity

how close two events occur in time or space

Prediction Error

a difference between what an individual expects and what actually occurs; it can drive learning

Extinction does not…

necessarily erase the orginal association

Blocking shows why…

prediction matters, not merely the timing of 2 events