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Unit 3 pt 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Learning | the process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information and behaviors |
| Habituation | the decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation |
| Associative learning | learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning) |
| Stimulus | any event or situations that evokes a response |
| respondent behavior | behavior that occurs as a automatic response to some stimuli |
| 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 we link two or more stimuli; as a result, to illustrate Pavlov's classical experiment, the first stimuli (a tone) comes to elicit (drooling) in anticipation of the second stimulus (food) |
| Behaviorism | the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1), but not (2). |
| Neutral stimulus | in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning |
| Unconditioned response (UCR) | in classical conditioning, an unrelated, naturally occurring response (such as salvia) to an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) (such as food in the mouth) |
| Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) | in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally -naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response (UCR) |
| Conditioned response (CR) | in classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CR) |
| Conditioned stimulus (CS) | in classical conditioning, an originally neutral stimulus that after association with a UCS comes to trigger a conditioned response. |
| Acquisition | In classical conditioning, the initial stage- when one links a neutral stimulus and un unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. |
| Higher-order conditioning | a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experiences is paired with anew stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. |