Classical Conditioning

learning in which the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets

paired or associated with the behavior

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classical conditioning

response caused by the conditioned stimulus (CS)

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Conditioned Response (CR)

change in behavior or knowledge that is the result of experience

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learning

unlearned knowledge, involving complex patterns of behavior; instincts are thought to be more

prevalent in lower animals than in humans

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instinct

stimulus that elicits a response due to its being paired with an unconditioned

stimulus (UC)

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conditioned stimulus (CS)

stimulus that elicits a reflexive response

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unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

natural (unlearned) behavior to a given stimulus

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unconditioned response (UCR)

occurs when an organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together in the

environment

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Associative

learning

a stimulus that does not naturally elicit a response

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neutral stimulus (NS)

when an organism learns to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

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acquisition