psych mid-term
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- learning behavior
- a relatively permanant change in an organism's beahvior due to experince
- classical conditional
- a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli.
- behaviorism
- the view that psychology should be a objective science that studies behavior w/out references to mental processes
- unconditional response(UCR)
- in the classical conditioning, the unlearned,naturally occuring response
- unconditional stimilus(UCS)
- a stimulus that unconditionally-naturallyand automatically-triggers a response
- conditioned response (CR)
- the learned response to a previously nuetral conditioned stimulus
- conditional stimulus (CS)
- an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association w/ a uncondition stimulus, comes a triggered condition response
- acquistion
- the pahse associating a nuetral stimulous w/a unconditional stimulous so that nuetral stimulous comes to elicht a conditional response.
- spontaneous recovery
- the reappearance, after arest period, of an extigusted conditioned response.
- generalization
- the tendency, once a response has been conditioned,for stimuli similar tothe conditioned stimulus to elicht similar responses