Module 6 Lesson 1

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Psychologists define learning as the process of acquiring, through experience, new information or relatively enduring behaviors.

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acquiring, through experience, new information or relatively enduring behaviors.

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If a sea slug repeatedly receives an electric shock just after being squirted with water, its protective withdrawal response to a squirt of water grows stronger. This best illustrates

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associative learning.

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A stimulus is any event or situation that

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evokes a response.

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Jordan is frightened by the sound of a train whistle. The sound is a(n)

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stimulus.

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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning is called a(n)

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neutral stimulus.

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Before Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate in response to a tone, the tone was a(n)

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neutral stimulus.

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In Pavlov's experiments, the taste of food triggered the dog's salivation. Salivation to the taste of food was a(n)

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unconditioned response.

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In Pavlov's experiments, the sound of the tone triggered the dog's salivation. Salivation to the sound of a tone was a(n)

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conditioned response.

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Three-year-old Jonathan saw fireworks that were repeatedly followed by loud, fear-producing explosive sounds. The mere sight of fireworks first began to trigger a learned fear reaction in Jonathan during the process of

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acquisition.

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In classical conditioning, generalization refers to the tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the

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conditioned stimulus.