Chapter 9 Unit 4 Psychology

A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a neutral stimulus.

• Neutral Stimulus (NS)

• Classical Conditioning

• Unconditioned Stimulus (USC)

• Unconditioned Response (UCR)

A stimulus that does not initially elicit any part of the unconditioned response.

• Neutral Stimulus (NS)

• Classical conditioning

• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

• Unconditioned Response (UCR)

An event that elicits a certain predictable response typically without previous training.

• Unconditioned Response (UCR)

• Neutral stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

• Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

An organism's automatic (or natural) reaction to a stimulus

• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

• Unconditioned Response (UCR)

• Neutral Stimulus (NS)

• Classical Conditioning

A once neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of training in which it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

• Conditioned Response

• Unconditioned Response

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

The learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Unconditioned Response

• Conditioned Stimulus

Responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli.

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• Extinction

• Operant Conditioning

The ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• Extinction

• Operant Conditioning

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

• Operant Conditioning

• Generalization

• Discrimination

• Extinction

Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence.

• Discrimination

• Generalization

• Operant Conditioning

• Extinction