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psychology exam 2
Question | Answer |
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Learning | The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively information or behaviors |
Associative learning | linking two events that occur close together |
Classical Conditioning | we learning to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events |
Operant conditioning | we learn to associate a response (our behavior) and its consequence |
Stimulus | any situation that evokes a response |
Ivan Pavlov | discovered classical conditioning |
classical conditioning | a type of learning In which we link two or more stimuli |
John b Watson | studied behaviorism. Created the study of "Little Albert" making a baby scared of a mouse |
Behaviorism | the view that psychology (1) should be objective (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
Neutral stimulus | a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning |
unconditioned response | unlearned naturally occurring response to a unconditioned stimulus |
unconditioned stimulus | stimulus that unconditionally ,naturally, automatically triggers a unconditioned response, |
conditioned response | a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus |
conditioned stimulus | a originally neutral stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response. |
Acquisition | the initial learning of learning an a association |
NS | Neutral stimulus |
US | unconditioned stimulus |
UR | unconditioned response |
CS | conditioned stimulus |
CR | conditioned response |