Chapter 6 - Learning

Chapter 5 - LearningPsychology 100 - Themes & Variations

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What are phobias?
Irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
What is learning?
A relatively durable change in behaviour of knowledge that is due to experience.
What is conditioning?
Learning associations between events that occur in an organism's environment.
What is classical conditioning?
Also known as Pavlovian conditioning, it is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
What is an unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?
A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
What is an unconditioned response (UCR)?
An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.
What is a conditioned stimulus (CS)?
A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
What is a conditioned response (CR)?
A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning.
What is a trial in terms of classical conditioning?
Consists of any presentation of stimulus or pair of stimuli.
What is immunosuppression?
A decrease in the production of antibodies.
What are antibodies?
Specialized proteins.
What are some physiological processes governed by classical conditioning?
- Immune resistance- Allergic reactions- Drug tolerance- Sexual arousal- Fetishes
What are compensatory CRs?
Opponent responses which partially compensate for some drug effects.
What are the basic processes of classical conditioning?
- Acquisition- Extinction- Spontaneous recovery
What is acquisition in terms of classical conditioning?
The initial stage of learning something.