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Learning
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Change in an organism's behavior or thought as a result of experience
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Habituation
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Process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli (opposite is sensitization)
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Classical conditioning (or Pavlovian or respondent conditioning)
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Form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response
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Conditioned stimulus
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Initially neutral stimulus
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Unconditioned stimulus
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Stimulus that elicits an automatic response
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Unconditioned response
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Automatic response to a nonneutral stimulus that does not need to be learned
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Conditioned response
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Response previously associated with a nonneutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning
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Acquisition
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Learning phase during which a conditioned response is established
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Extinction
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Gradual reduction and eventual elimination of the conditioned response after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus
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Spontaneous recovery
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Sudden reemergence of an extinct conditioned response after a delay in exposure to the conditioned stimulus
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Renewal effect
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Sudden reemergence of a conditioned response following extinction when an animal is returned to the environment in which the conditioned response was acquired
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Stimulus generalization
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Process by which conditioned stimuli similar, but not identical to, the original conditioned stimulus elicit a conditioned response
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Stimulus discrimination
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Displaying a less pronounced conditioned response to conditioned stimuli that differ from the original conditioned stimulus
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Higher-order conditioning
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Developing a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus by virtue of its association with another conditioned stimulus
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Latent inhibition
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Difficulty in establishing classical conditioning to a conditioned stimulus we've repeatedly experienced alone, without the unconditioned stimulus
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