stimulus, a change in the environment in which an organism responds, neutral stimulus, has nothing to do with the response prior to the conditioning, classical conditioning, a learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a neutral stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, an event that elicits a certain predictable response typically without previous training, unconditioned response, automatic reaction to a stimulus, conditioned stimulus, once neutral event that causes a given response after a period of training, conditioned response, learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus, acquisition, the conditioned response happens gradually, generalization, responding to a second stimulus similar to the original conditioned stimulus, discrimination, responding differently to a different stimuli, extinction, the conditioned response can gradually die out, spontaneous recovery, the conditioned response can be brought back after extinction, but not to the original strength, operant conditioning, learning from the consequences of behavior, reinforcement, stimulus or event that follows a response and increases the likelihood that the response will be repeated, positive reinforcement, something is added, negative reinforcement, something is taken away, primary reinforcer, one that satisfies a biological need such as hunger, thirst, or sleep, secondary reinforcer, one that has been paired with a primary reinforcer and through classical conditioning has acquired value and reinforcement, aversive control, the process of influencing behavior by means of unpleasant stimuli (negative reinforcement), escape conditioning, training of an organism to remove an unpleasant stimulus

Conditioning Terms part 1

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