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Question 1

Who created classical conditioning?

Answer 1

Ivan Pavlov

Question 2

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 2

A type of learning the connects 2+ stimuli to anticipate events

Question 3

What is behaviorism? Who started it?

Answer 3

John B. Watson started this and it is the belief that [psychology should be an objective that studies behavior without references to mental processes.

Question 4

How did pavlov do his experiment with classical conditioning?

Answer 4

He locked dogs in a small room, locked them up and attached a device to collect/measure saliva. He rung a bell (?) then gave them food right after it, eventually they associated the neutral stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus, creating a conditioned response.

Question 5

What is a neutral stimuli?

Answer 5

Events/things we see or hear but don’t associate with stimulus

Question 6

What is a unconditioned response?

Answer 6

an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus.

Question 7

What is a unconditioned stimulus?

Answer 7

a stimulus that unconciously triggers an unconditional response

Question 8

What is a conditioned response?

Answer 8

A learned response to neutral stimulus

Question 9

What is a conditioned stimulus?

Answer 9

an originally unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditioned response due to a neutral stimulus

Question 10

What is delayed acquisition?

Answer 10

A short break between US and NS

Question 11

Is neutral stimulus first or second?

Answer 11

Always first

Question 12

What is acquisition?

Answer 12

It is the period when a response is being learned, such as when a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus

Question 13

What is high order conditioning?

Answer 13

Conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus. creating a weaker 2nd conditioned stimulus

Question 14

What is extinction?

Answer 14

The diminishing of conditioned response (US doesn’t follow CS).

Question 15

What is spontaneous recovery?

Answer 15

Reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response

Question 16

What is generalization?

Answer 16

The tendency for a stimuli similar to conditioned stimuli to elicit a similar response

Question 17

What is discrimination?

Answer 17

an irrelevant stimuli; having the ability to distinguish the difference between a conditioned stimulus and another stimulus