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Classical conditioning

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A type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another. “ Pavlovian conditioning or respondent conditioning”

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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in behavior, knowledge , capability , or attitude that is acquired through experience and cannot be attribution to illness, injury, or maturation.

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Stimulus

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“Stimuli” is an event or object in the environment to which an organism responds

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Who is Ivan Pavlov

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Noble prize winner in 1904 , first time Russia received an honor, conducted classic experiments on the physiology of digestion .

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Unconditioned response (ur)

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A response that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without prior learning .

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Unconditioned stimulus (us)

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A stimulus that elicits a specific unconditioned response without prior learning.

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Conditioned response (cr)

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The leArned response that comes to be elicited by a conditioned stimulus as a result of it’s repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus .

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Conditioned stimulus (cs)

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A neutral stimulus that, after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus, because associated with it and elicits a conditioned response.

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Higher order conditioning

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Conditions that occurs when conditioned stimuli are linked together to form a series of signals

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Extinction

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In classical conditioning , the weakening and eventually disappearance of the conditioned response as a result of repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus.

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Spontaneous recovery

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The reappearance of an extinguished response (in a weaker form ) when an organism is exposed to the original conditioned stimulus following a rest period.

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Generalization

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In classical conditioning, the tendency to make a conditioned response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus .

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Discrimination

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The learned ability to distinguish between similar stimuli so that the conditioned response occurs only to the original conditioned stimulus but not to similar stimuli.