PSY200- CHAPTER 7-LEARNING Questions and
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LEARNING
Ans: The acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that
results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner.
habituation
Ans: A general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus
results in a gradual reduction in responding.
sensitization
Ans: A simple form of learning that occurs when presentation of a stimulus leads to
an increased response to a later stimulus.
classical conditioning
Ans: A type of learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response
after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response
US
Ans: Something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism
UR
Ans: A reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus.
CS
Ans: A previously neutral stimulus that produces a reliable response in an organism
after being paired with a US
CR
Ans: A reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a
conditioned stimulus
acquisition
Ans: The phase of classical conditioning when the CS and the US are presented
together.
second- order conditioning
Ans: Conditioning in which a CS is paired with a stimulus that became associated
with the US in an earlier procedure.
extinction
Ans: The gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the CS is
repeatedly presented without the US.