Psychology of Learning - Lecture 4

These flashcards cover key terms and concepts from the lecture on the psychology of learning, focusing on systematic desensitization, conditioning, and related therapeutic methods.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic process that involves gradual exposure to a feared stimulus to encourage extinction of the fear response.

Counterconditioning

A technique used in systematic desensitization involving the introduction of a competing response to fear.

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, triggers a conditioned response.

Conditioned Response (CR)

The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become a conditioned stimulus.

Desensitization Hierarchy

A step-by-step outline used in systematic desensitization starting from the least anxiety-provoking situation to the most.

Indirect Conditioning

A type of conditioning where a conditioned response is elicited indirectly through a stimulus not directly associated with the unconditioned stimulus.

Generalization

The ability of similar stimuli to elicit the conditioned response, even if they have not been paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Higher Order Conditioning

A form of conditioning where a conditioned stimulus can trigger a conditioned response without direct pairing with an unconditioned stimulus.

Vicarious Conditioning

Conditioning that occurs when an individual observes the association of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus in another individual.

Compensatory Interoceptive Responses

Physiological reactions that occur in response to conditioned stimuli, often as a form of adaptation in drug tolerance.

Aversion Therapy

A behavioral treatment that aims to reduce undesirable behaviors by associating them with unpleasant sensations or responses.