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- 1LEARNINGSome experience that results in a permanent change in the state of the learner.
- 2CLASSICAL CONDITIONINGWhen a neutral stimulus evokes a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally evokes a response.
- 3UNCONDITIONED STIMULUSSomething that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism.
- 4UNCONDITIONED RESPONSEA reflexive reaction that is reliably elicited by an unconditional stimulus.
- 5CONDITIONED STIMULUSA stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism.
- 6CONDITIONED RESPONSEA reaction that resembles an unconditional response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus.
- 7ACQUISTIONThe phase of classical conditioning when the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus are presented together.
- 8SECOND ORDER CONDITIONINGConditioning where the unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that acquired it's ability to produce learning from an earlier procedure in which it was used as a conditioned stimulus.
- 9EXTINCTIONThe gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented.
- 10SPONTANEOUS RECOVERYThe tendency of learned behaviour to recover from extinction after a rest period.
- 11GENERALIZATIONA process in which the conditioned response is observed even though the conditioned stimulus is slightly different from the original one used during acquisition.
- 12DISCRIMINATIONThe capacity to distinguish between similar but distinct stimuli.
- 13BIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESSA propensity for learning particular kinds of associations over others.
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