Psychology: Classical Conditioning and Learning Principles

what are the four variabeles that affect conditioning

Trace

Delayed

Simultaneous

Backward

Compound Stimuli

More than one stimulus is percieved in the environment at the same time

Overshadowing

One stimulus "overshadows" the other as a matter of saliency

Blocking

occurs when a previously learned association prevents (or "blocks") a subject from learning a new association

Latent Inhabition

When there is a strong prior experience with a stimulus association, conditioning does occur but it takes many more trials

Classical Conditioning

AKA Stimulus-Stimulus (S-S) Learning, learing to associate 2 stimuli that happen close in time in our enivornment such that one comes to predict the other

Passive Learning

requires NO behavior on ones part.

Ivan Pavlov

Physiologist sho was studying digestion in Dogs.

What are the two types of reflexes?

Unconditioned reflex and Conditioned Reflex

What is an example of unconditioned reflex

Food ----> Salivation (innate/born with it)

What is an example of a conditioned response

Bell ----> Salivation (learned reflex)

What is a neutral stimulus

Any stimulus that initially does not elicit a conditioned response

Higher Ordering

A well established CS can work like a US

Salient

Most noticable, prominant or important

Contingency

The degree to which a particular stimulus follows another, "Rate of Contingency" "IF-Then Rule"

Contiguity

Time between the stimuli, High rates of learning requires short Inter-Stimulus Intervals (time between stimuli

(one exception is taste aversion)