Learning through association with a neutral stimulus paired with an unconditioned stimulus, which produces a natural unconditioned response.
Neutral Stimulus (NS): an environmental stimulus that does not naturally produce a response
Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS): produces a natural unlearned behavioural response
Unconditioned Response (UCR): Any response that occurs naturally without learning it
Conditioned Stimulus (CS): associated with UCS, so that now it produces the same response the UCS would do on its own
Conditioned Response (CR): learned behaviour is the response to a learned stimulus (CS)
NOTE:
- The NS becomes the CS
- The UCR and the CR are the same
- NS + UCS = CRHigher Order Conditioning: pairing another neutral stimulus with the original neutral stimulusGeneralisation: extending the original association to include similar stimuli
Discrimination: only responding to the original conditioned stimulus
Extinction: the association between the CS and the UCS is no longer there
Spontaneous Recovery: after the response has extinguished, it may suddenly reappear for no apparent reason
One Trial Learning: an association is made after just one pairing of the NS and the UCS