Classical Conditioning: Terminology Practice



Classical Conditioning: Terminology Practice

Natalie goes to the park and is playing near a tree.

She bumps into a branch that just happens to house a squirrel that proceeds to attack her.

After she recovers from her squirrel attack, she refuses to go near the park.

UCS squirrel attack

UCR Fear

NS Park

CS Park

CR Fear

Sharks are scary.

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” doesn’t usually scare you.

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” plays when sharks are approaching.

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” plays, and you get nervous.

UCS sharks

UCR fear

NS “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

CS “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

CR fear

What is acquisition? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.

The initial stage of learning where you first learn to associate the NS/CS with the UCS. Learning to associate the song with sharks.

Trips on cruise ships make you sick.

The sound of a foghorn doesn’t make you sick.

The foghorn blows while you are on the cruise ship getting sick.

Foghorns make you want to throw up.

UCS cruise ship

UCR sickness

NS foghorn

CS foghorn

CR sickness

What is extinction? Define the term in your own words. How could you apply it to the example above?

The diminishing of a learned response. If you go several years hearing foghorns from land and don’t get sick, you will forget the association you once had.

What is spontaneous recovery? Define the term in your own words. How could you apply it to the example above?

When a previously extinct response suddenly returns. One day, out of nowhere, you hear a foghorn and you puke!

Eating pickles makes you salivate.

The word “pickle” doesn’t make you salivate.

Before even eating the pickle, you think to yourself “Mmm…pickles!”

The thought of pickles makes you salivate.

UCS pickles

UCR salivation

NS the word “pickle”

CS the word “pickle”

CR salivation

What is stimulus generalization? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.

When you have the CR to anything similar to the CS. Ex: You salivate when you say something similar to pickle, like “parka” or “cucumber.”

John’s mother was a great baker.

When he was a boy, she would spend all Saturday baking while listening to AC/DC.

The smell of cakes, breads, and cookies and the sound of music would fill the house.

Twenty years later, John can’t listen to AC/DC without getting hungry.

UCS smell of cakes, breads, and cookies

UCR hunger

NS AC/DC

CS AC/DC

CR hunger

What is stimulus discrimination/distinction? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.

Knowing the difference between the CS and similar stimuli. Ex: Another rock band that’s similar, like Metallica, wouldn’t make you hungry.

Jeannie was sitting in a Chinese restaurant with her fiancé when he told her he was leaving her for a chorus girl from Las Vegas named Cherries Flambé.

Now, whenever she walks past a Chinese restaurant, she gets very, very sad.

UCS Fiancé leaving

UCR sadness

NS Chinese restaurant

CS Chinese restaurant

CR sadness

What is higher-order conditioning? Define the term in your own words and apply it to the example above.

Connecting a second stimulus to the CS to elicit a new CR. Ex: Pairing the Chinese restaurant with a particular song or music, then she would feel sad every time she hears that music.

Little Jimmy goes to Grandma and Grandpa’s, and every time, he gets knocked down by their new dog Fluffy.

Jimmy soon becomes terrified of going to his grandparents’, screaming louder the closer he comes to the front door.

UCS Fluffy

UCR fear

NS grandparents’ house/front door

CS grandparents’ house/front door

CR fear

Susan and Dan hear the song “Crank Dat” by Soldja Boy during their first date, which, as it turns out, was wonderful. Now when Susan hears the song, she gets goosebumps and her heart flutters.

UCS first date

UCR goosebumps and heart fluttering

NS Crank Dat

CS Crank Dat

CR goosebumps and heart fluttering

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