Learning

Involuntary responses

include salivation, blinking, sweating and cringing or the automatic bodily reactions to strong emotions such as fear.

Habituation

is what happens when repeated stimulation produces waning responsiveness.

Classical conditioning

is a type of associative learning that involves learned involuntary responses.

Stimuli

are things we do not control and that we respond to automatically (involuntary responses)

Sensory adaptation

is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when the brain stops recognizing a constant and unchanging stimulus.

stimulus

The behaviour that follows a(n) .

Habituation

is a type of learning or relatively permanent change in behavior that involves a reduced response as a result of repeated but not constant exposure.

classical conditioning

In , we learn to associate two stimuli and thus anticipate events.

classical conditioning

The events may be two stimuli (as in ) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning)