CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING
LATEST VERSION 2025/2026
learning - ANS -a relatively permanent change in an organism's
behavior due to experience
habituation - ANS -an organism's decreasing response to a
stimulus with repeated exposure to it
associative learning - ANS -learning that certain events occur
together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical
conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant
conditioning)
classical conditioning - ANS -a type of learning in which one
learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
behaviorism - ANS -the view that psychology: (1) should be an
objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to
, mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with
(1) but not with (2)
unconditioned response (UR) - ANS -in classical conditioning,
the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the
unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in
the mouth
unconditioned stimulus (US) - ANS -in classical conditioning, a
stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically -
triggers a response
conditioned response (CR) - ANS -in classical conditioning, the
learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned)
stimulus (CS)
conditioned stimulus (CS) - ANS -in classical conditioned, an
originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an
unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned
response
LATEST VERSION 2025/2026
learning - ANS -a relatively permanent change in an organism's
behavior due to experience
habituation - ANS -an organism's decreasing response to a
stimulus with repeated exposure to it
associative learning - ANS -learning that certain events occur
together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical
conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant
conditioning)
classical conditioning - ANS -a type of learning in which one
learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events
behaviorism - ANS -the view that psychology: (1) should be an
objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to
, mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with
(1) but not with (2)
unconditioned response (UR) - ANS -in classical conditioning,
the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the
unconditioned stimulus (US), such as salivation when food is in
the mouth
unconditioned stimulus (US) - ANS -in classical conditioning, a
stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically -
triggers a response
conditioned response (CR) - ANS -in classical conditioning, the
learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned)
stimulus (CS)
conditioned stimulus (CS) - ANS -in classical conditioned, an
originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an
unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned
response
