Psychology Learning Concepts

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learning

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A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.

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habituation

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An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it.

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associative learning

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Learning that certain events occur together; the events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences.

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classical conditioning

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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

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behaviorism

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The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.

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unconditioned response (UR)

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In classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus.

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unconditioned stimulus (US)

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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response.

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conditioned stimulus (CS)

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In classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.

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generalization

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The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.

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discrimination

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In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.