Classical Conditioning Basics

Classical Conditioning Basics

1. Object Learning

   • Before conditioning
     • US (food) elicits UR (salivation)
       • NS (tuning fork) does not elicit Response (salivat)ion
   • During Conditioning
     • Acquisition: US (food) and NS (tuning fork) paired enough times to elicit response (Salivation)
   • After Conditioning
     • CS (Tuning fork) elicits CR (salivation) alone.

2. Acquisition

   • Extinction
     • Rapid Reacquisition
       • Even after complete extinction, conditioning a second time is faster than the initial training
       • Spontaneous Recovery
         • This reappearance of a CR after extinction is called spontaneous recovery.
         • Disinhibition
           • A novel situation or stimulus can make an extinguished CS effective again. This is known as disinhibition, on the assumption that extinction training produced an inhibition of the CS-CR association.
           • Dishabituation
             • when we respond to an old stimulus as if it were new again
     • The procedure of re- peatedly presenting the CS alone is called extinction. When, as a result of this, the CR no longer occurs (or occurs no more than it did prior to conditioning), we say that it has been extinguished.
   • Acquisition refers to the first stages of learning when a response is established. In classical conditioning, it refers to the period when the stimulus comes to evoke the conditioned response.

3. Experimental Situations

   • Fear Conditioning
     • Little Albert
     • Startle Response
       • DEF
     • Conditioned Suppression
       • Baseline responding
         • DEF
       • CS-US Pairing
         • DEF
       • Compare Responding to Baseline
         • DEF
       • Two Procedures
         • Lick-suppression
           • DEF
         • Conditioned Emotional Response
           • DEF
   • Eyeblink Conditioning
     • DEF
   • Sign Tracking or Autoshaping
     • Brown and Jenkins
       • US Grain
       • US Food
       • DEF
     • Long-box Autoshaping
       • DEF
   • Taste Conditioning
     • Good
       • DEF
     • Bad
       • DEF
   • Conditioned Taste Aversion
     • DEF
     • Single Trial
     • Long Delay
   • Cancer Patients

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