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100
Define Extinction
What is the removal of a conditioned response?
100
Your professor slams the door everyday when she walks in, so that you now wince when you see her enter through the door. What is the US? What is the CS?
What is slamming? What is the teacher?
100
Define Stimulus Discrimination
What is responding only to a particular stimulus.
100
What experiment did Pavlov originally preform?
What is classical conditioning with dogs?
100
The tendency of an organism to ignore repeated stimuli.
What is habituation?
200
Define Neutral Stimulus
What is a stimulus that does not naturally elicit an unconditioned response?
200
When you go out on a bright sunny day, you squint. What is the US?
What is the sun?
200
Define Contingency
What is the degree to which presentation of one stimulus reliably predicts the presentation of another.
200
Phobias are what kind of response?
What is CR?
200
The degree to which two stimuli occur close together in time.
What is contiguity?
300
Define Dishabituation
What is responding to a stimulus to which one has been habituated?
300
Your Grandma is baking cookies and the smell is through out the whole house, when it reaches you, your mouth waters. What is the UR?
What is mouth watering?
300
Define Taste Aversion
What is classical conditioning that occurs when an organism pairs the experience of nausea with a certain food and becomes conditioned to fall ill at the sight, smell, or idea of the food.
300
Sally dislikes the smell of rose perfume because her crabby third-grade teacher used to wear rose perfume. Is this an example of classical conditioning?
What is yes?
300
During extinction, the tendency for a CR to reappear and strengthen over a brief period of time before re-extinguishing.
What is spontaneous recovery?
400
Define Learning
What is a relatively permanent change in behavior; or behavior potential as a result of an experience?
400
Little Albert was conditioned to fear the white rat because a loud noise was made every time the rat was given to Albert to play with. What was the NS?
What is the white rat?
400
Define Acquisition
What is the process of learning a conditioned response or behavior?
400
What causes some people to dislike certain foods?
What is conditioned taste aversion?
400
A stimulus that elicits a CR in an organism.
What is conditioned stimulus?
500
Define Classical Conditioning
What is before conditioning, the NS is repeatedly paired with a US; because of this pairing, the NS becomes a CS with the same power as US to elicit the response in the organism?
500
Jack always smokes when he is in someone's car at school. When his mother picks him up one day, Jack immediately reaches for a cigarette when he gets in the car (even though he doesn't want his mother to know he smokes). What is the US? What is the UR? What is the CS? What is the CR?
What is car, smoking, mom's car, and smoking.
500
Define Biological Preparedness
What is a genetic tendency to learn certain responses very easily
500
Are emotional responses classically conditioned?
What is yes?
500
A stimulus that naturally elicits a response in an organism.
What is US?
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