Classical Conditioning Terms
What the subject begins to associate with the unconditional stimulus.
What is a conditional stimulus?
When you begin to add new unconditional stimulus or move unconditional stimulus to other behaviors, and your conditional response fades.
What is extinction?
The dogs' conditional response in Pavlov's experiment.
What is saliva in the presence of a conditional stimulus?
This occurs when stimuli similar to the conditional stimulus generate the conditional response. The more similar the stimulus, the stronger the response.
What is generalization?
In some cases, this can happen after only a single trial.
What is conditioning?
What causes the subject to respond naturally.
What is an unconditional stimulus?
Bringing back the unconditional stimulus partnered with the conditional stimulus, causing the conditional response to return.
What is spontaneous recovery?
The unconditional stimulus in Pavlov's dog experiment.
What is dog food?
This is an application of classic conditioning.
What is advertising?
A scientists who furthered Pavlov's discoveries in an experiment involving rats.
Who is John Garcia?
An automatic, natural response to the stimulus.
What is an unconditional response?
When the subject begins to associate the conditional stimulus with the unconditional stimulus.
What is acquisition?
The dogs' unconditional response in Pavlov's experiment.
What is saliva in the presence of an unconditional stimulus?
When a conditional response occurs only after a conditional stimulus, not after similar stimulus.
What is discrimination?
What is the conditional stimulus in Garcia's experiment?
What is a flavored drink?
A learned response to the conditional stimulus.
What is a conditional response?
A procedure in which the conditional stimulus of one experiment acts as the unconditional stimulus of another, for the purpose of conditioning a neutral stimulus.
What is higher order conditioning?
The conditional stimulus in Pavlov's dog experiment.
What is a light bulb/the presence of a researcher/the sound of a metronome/the sound of a bell?
Stimuli that is slightly different, but close to the conditional stimulus and still causes the conditional response.
What is similar stimuli?
In some cases, conditioning can happen even with a long delay between this and the unconditional stimulus.
What is a conditional stimulus?