Classical Conditioning P1 Flashcards
What is Classical Conditioning?
Learning through association of stimulus presentation and associating them with the production of specific behaviours.
Define Stimulus.
An object or event that provokes a physical or behavioural response in an organism.
Define Response.
The way that someone responds to the presentation of a stimulus.
What is Discrimination?
When someone is able to differentiate the difference between two similar stimulus that may provokes a like response.
What is Generalisation?
When someone translates their response to one stimulus to another of a similar nature such as fear of white rats leads to a fear of white beards.
How is a conditioned response created by a person?
Through repeated exposure to a stimulus accompanied by their reaction they then associate the stimulus with their own behavioural response.
Such as fear every time there is the colour blue because something that used to scare them was blue, consequently they now have an internalised fear of blue that is now a conditioned response likely to be generalised.
