classical conditioning

Acquisition

________- the process by which a contingency between a CS and US is learned.

Implosive therapy

________- an individual w a particular phobia is encouraged to confront the CS that invoked their anxiety using their imagination.

Stimulus

________ discrimination- restricts the range of conditioned stimuli that can elicit a response.

Spontaneous recovery

________- the sudden recover of a conditional response following a rest period after extinction.

Systematic Desensitization

________- patient is gradually desensitized to similar fear- inducing stimili.

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated w an unconditioned stimulus to eventually trigger a response all on its own

Conditioned response (CR)

the eventual response to the CS

Acquisition

the process by which a contingency between a CS and US is learned

Extinction

the loss of the CR when the CS no longer predicts the US

Spontaneous recovery

the sudden recover of a conditional response following a rest period after extinction

Stimulus generalization

the process by which stimuli similar to the CS will also produce a CR

Stimulus discrimination

restricts the range of conditioned stimuli that can elicit a response

Implosive therapy

an individual w a particular phobia is encouraged to confront the CS that invoked their anxiety using their imagination

Systematic Desensitization

patient is gradually desensitized to similar fear-inducing stimili

Compensatory response

a process which counteracts a challenge to homeostasis

orienting response

an automatic shift of attention toward a novel or salient stimulus

contiguity

the extent to which the CS and US occur together in time and space

continuity

the finding that stronger contingencies from when the US and CS are presented close together in time + space

reacquisition

the reintroduction of conditioning trials after extinction has occured. faster than acquisition

renewal

when a contingency is extinguished in an environment diff than the original environment of acquisition, but the CR again occurs when the Cs is presented in the original environment

dishabituation

inc in responding that follows a change in a previously habituated stimulus