Inside your brain
The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
What is neutral stimulus?
in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.
What is aquisition?
decreasing responsiveness with repeated exposure to a stimulus
What is habituation?
the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.
What is cognitive learning?
in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally—naturally and automatically—triggers an unconditioned response
What is unconditioned stimulus?
he diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus
What is extinction?
a connection or relationship between two items (e.g., ideas, events, feelings) with the result that experiencing the first item activates a representation of the second
What is association?
a type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli
What is classical conditioning?
in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus
What is unconditioned response?
the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?
occurs when an association, such as a taste aversion, is acquired through one pairing of the stimulus and response and is not strengthened by further pairings.
What is one trial learning?
learning that certain events occur together, the events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequence.
What is associative learning?
n classical conditioning, an originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
What is conditioned stimulus?
the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses
What is generalization?
the association of the taste of a food or fluid with an aversive stimulus (usually gastrointestinal discomfort or illness), leading to a very rapid and long-lasting aversion to, or at the least a decreased preference for, that particular taste.
What is taste aversion?
the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes
What is behaviorism?
in classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus
What is conditioned response?
a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.
What is higher-order conditioning?
in classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus
What is discrimination?