How do we Learn & Classical Conditioning.

Learning

Relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience

Habituates

An organisms decreasing response to a stimulus with a repeated exposure to it

Associative Learning

Certain events go together, the events may two stimuli or a response and its consequences

Operant Learning

Learn to associate a response and its consequence

Cognitive Learning

The acquisition of mental info whether by observing the events, by watching others, or through language

Observational Learning

Lets us learn from others experience

Classical Learning

One learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events

Respondent Behavior

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus

Stimulus

Any event or situation that evokes a response

Behaviorism

Psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes

Neutral Stimulus (NS)

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning

Unconditioned Response (UR)

Naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

Unconditioned Stimulus (US)

A stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response

Conditioned Response (CR)

Learned response to a previously neutral, but now continued, stimulus

Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

Originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response

Acquisition

When one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering that conditioned response

High-Order Processing

The conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second conditioned stimulus

Extinction

The diminishing of a conditioned response

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

Generalization

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

Discrimination

The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus

Classical Conditioning

A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli ; as a result, to illustrate with Pavlovs classic experiment

Operant Behavior

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences