Classical Conditioning (4A)

Question 1

What does learning mean?

Answer 1

The process of acquiring knowledge, skills or behaviour through experience.

Question 2

What types of stimulus are in the ‘before conditioning’ phase?

Answer 2

Neutral stimulus
Unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned response

Question 3

What is the neutral stimulus?

Before conditioning

During conditioning

After conditioning

Answer 3

It produces no significant response prior to conditioned.
For example, a bell ringing.

It is then paired with the unconditioned stimulus by showing them half a second apart.

The neutral stimulus then becomes the conditioned stimulus that produces the conditioned response.

Question 4

What is the unconditioned stimulus?

Before conditioning

During conditioning

After conditioning

Answer 4

It produces a natural unconcious response.
For example a dog seeing food.

It is the paired with the neutral stimulus by showing them half a second apart.

Question 5

What is the unconditioned response?

Before conditioning

During conditioning

After conditioning

Answer 5

The naturally occurring behaviour in response to a stimulus.

For example a dog salivating for the food.

Question 6

What is the conditioned response?

Answer 6

The unconditioned response that occurs to the neutral stimulus that has now become the conditioned stimulus.