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Psych 102 Chapter 7
Learning
Term | Definition |
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learning | the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information of behaviors |
associative learning | learning that certain events occur together |
stimulus | any event or situation that evokes a response |
cognitive learning | the acquisition of mental information whether by observing events, by watching other, or through language |
classical conditioning | a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli to anticipate events |
Behaviorism | the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. |
neutral stimulus | in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning |
unconditioned response | an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus |
unconditioned stimulus | a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response |
conditioned response | a learned response to a previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus |
conditioned stimulus |