Unit 4 Learning Review

a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience

an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it

learning that certain events occur together.

a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events

psychology: (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.

the unlearned, naturally occurring reaction to US, such as salivation when food is in the mouth

a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a reaction (like food)

the learned reaction to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)

an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an US, comes to trigger a conditioned reaction

the "learned" behavior or response

a procedure in which the CS in one conditioning experience is paired with a new NS, creating a second (often weaker) CS.

the diminishing of a CR; when a response is no longer reinforced

the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished CR

the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the CS to elicit responses

the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and stimuli that do not signal an US