(8) 3.8 Classical Conditioning

  • Behaviorism

    • Psychology = observable, objective science

  • Associative Learning

    • Learning that certain events occur together

  • Conditioning

    • Classical Conditioning

      • Associate an involuntary response w/ a stimuli

  • Ivan Pavlov

    • Created classical conditioning

  • Unconditional Stimulus

    • (UCS) stimulus that naturally triggers & automatically triggers a response

  • Unconditional Response

    • (UCR) an unlearned response

  • Conditioned Stimulus

    • (CS) an originally irrelevant stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response

  • Conditioned Response

    • (CR) A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus

  • Higher-order Conditioning

    • Conditioning that is built on previously established conditioning

  • Acquisition

    • Initial learning

  • Extinction

    • Diminishing of a conditioned response

  • Spontaneous Recovery

    • Reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response

  • Generalization

    • Respond to a stimulus that resembles the original conditioned stimulus (CR)

  • Discrimination

    • When the CR only occurs to a specific CS

  • Taste Aversion

    • Learned association between the taste of a particular food & illness