Pschology Final
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- learning
- a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
- classical conditioning
- a type of learning where a stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces a response
- stimulus
- anything in the environment that one can respond to
- response
- any behavior or action
- behaviorism
- the view that psychology should restrict its efforts to studiying observable behaviors not mental processes
- John Watson
- founder of behaviorism the view that psychology should restrict its efforts to studying observable behaviors not mental processes
- cognition
- mental processes all the mental activities asscociated with thinking knowing and remembering
- unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
- in classical conditioning a stimulus that triggers a response automatically and reflexively
- unconditioned response(UCR)
- in classical conditioning the automatic response to the unconditoned stimulus
- conditional stimulus (CS)
- in classical conditioning a previously neutral stimulus that through learning has gained the power to cause a conditioned response
- condition response (CR)
- in classical conditioning the responseto the conditioned stimulus
- aquisition
- in classical conditioning the process of developing a learned response
- extinction
- in classical conditioning the diminishing of learned response when a UCS does not follow a CS
- spontaneous recovery
- reapperarance after a rest period of an extinguished conditined response
- Ivan Pavlov
- learning theorist famous for the discovery of classical conditioning
- generalization
- a process in which an organism produces different responses to 2 similiar stimuli
- discrimination
- a process in which an orgainism produces different responses to 2 similar stimuli
- Rosali Rayner
- graduate student of John Watson and co researcher for the Little Albert demonstration of classically conditioned emotion
- John Garcia
- identified the phenomenon of taste aversion which established that classical conditoning was influenced by biological predispostions
- Robert Rescorla
- developed a new theory that emphasized the importance of cognitive processes in classical conditioning