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Amber Cardwell English 4 cards

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1extinctionin classical conditioning, the weakening of a conditioned response when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus. (in operant conditioned, the weakening of a response when it is no longer reinforced.
2spontaneous recoverythe reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
3generalizationin classical conditioning, the tendency, after conditioning, to respond similarly to stimuli that resemble the conditioned stimulus, (In operant conditioning, generalization occurs when our responses to similar stimuli are also reinforced.)
4discriminationin classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli. (In operant conditioning, the ability to distinguish responses that are reinforced from those that are not.)