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Autoshaping
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Movement toward and possibly contact with a stimulus that signals the availability of a positive reinforce, such as food. Also called sign tracking
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Backward conditioning
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A procedure in which the conditioned stimulus is presented shortly after the unconditioned stimulus on each trial
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Compound-stimulus test
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A test procedure that identifies a stimulus as a conditioned inhibitor if that stimulus reduces the responding elicited by a conditioned excitatory stimulus. Also called summation test
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Conditional or Conditioned Response (CR)
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The response that comes to be made to the conditioned stimulus as a result of classical conditioning
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Conditional or Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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A stimulus that does not elicit a particular response initially, but comes to do so as a result of becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus
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Conditioned Emotional Response (CER)
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Suppression of positively reinforced instrumental behavior (e.g., lever pressing for food pellets) caused by the presentation of a stimulus that has become associated with an aversive stimulus. Also called conditioned suppression
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Conditioned Suppression
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Suppression of positively reinforced instrumental behavior (e.g., lever pressing for food pellets) caused by the presentation of a stimulus that has become associated with an aversive stimulus. Also called Conditioned Emotional Response
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Conditioning Trial
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A training episode involving presentation of a conditioned stimulus with (or without) an unconditioned stimulus
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CS-US interval
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The amount of time that elapses between presentations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) during a classical conditioning trial. Also called Interstimulus Interval
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Evaluative Conditioning
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Changing the hedonic value or liking of an initially neutral stimulus by having that stimulus associated with something that is already liked or disliked
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Explicitly unpaired control
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A procedure in which both conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are presented, but with sufficient time between them so that they do not become associated with each other
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Inhibitory Conditioning
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A type of classical conditioning in which the conditioned stimulus becomes a signal for the absence of the unconditioned stimulus
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Interstimulus interval
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The amount of time that elapses between presentations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the unconditioned stimulus (US) during a classical conditioning trial. Also called the CS-US interval
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Intertrial interval
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The amount of time that elapses between two successive trials
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Latency
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The time elapsed between a stimulus (or the start of a trial) and the response that is made to the stimulus
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