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Learning
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A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
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Classical Conditioning
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A type of learning where a stimulus gains the power to cause a response because it predicts another stimulus that already produces the response
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Stimulus
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Anything in the environment that one can respond to
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Response
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Any behavior or action
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Unconditioned Stiumulus (UCS)
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In classical conditioning, a stimulus that triggers a response automatically and reflexively
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Unconditioned Response (UCR)
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In classical conditioning, the automatic response to the unconditioned stimulus
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, through learning, has gained the power to cause a conditioned response
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Conditioned Response (CR)
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In classical conditioning, the response to the conditioned stimulus
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Acquisition
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In classical conditioning, the process of developing a learned responses
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Extinction
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In classical conditioning, the diminishing of a learned response; when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus
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Spontaneous Recovery
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The reappareance, after a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response
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Ivan Pavlov
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Learning theorist famous for the discovery of classical conditioning
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Generalization
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A process in which an organism produces the same response to two similar stimuli
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Discrimination
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A process in which an organism produces different responses to two similar stimuli
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Rosalie Rayner
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Graduate student of John Watson and co-researcher for the famous Little Albert demonstration of classically conditioned emotion
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