AP Psychology – Learning/ Classical Conditioning

School of psychology that defines psychology as the scientific study as observable and measurable behavior.

Founding father of behaviorism.

A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience or practice.

Russian psychologist, studying salvation in dogs and digestion.

Process: Tubes surgically inserted in the cheeks of a dog, and collects amount with food presented. Accident: Noticed that dogs would salivate when food was simply brought into the room.

Used a bell or metronome, and meat products to show dog would salivate at the sound of the bell.

Simple form of learning where one stimulus calls forth the response usually called forth by another stimulus; ASSOCIATION.

Anything that produces a reaction from a person or animal.

The reaction to a stimulus. Ex: Scream, cry.

Causes an automatic response; NOT LEARNED (meat in Pavlov's study).

Automatic response; occurs naturally (salvation)

Nothing to do with the UCS or UCR; causes a sensory response but does not produce the response being tested (bell).

Formerly the neutral stimulus; has acquired the ability to elicit a response that was previously elicited by the UCS. (bell)

LEARNED; ELICITED BY THE CS but not the same as the UCR (strength is different, what produces it is different).