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Discrimination: the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimuli that does not signal UCS

Generalization: the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the CS to elicit similar responses

Spontaneous recovery: the reappearance. After a rest period, of an extinguished conditioned response

Extinction: the diminishing of a conditioned response. Will eventually happen when the UCS does not follow the CS

Acquisition: the initial stage of learning
-the phase where the neutral stimulus is associated with the UCS do that the neural stimulus comes to elicit the CR (thus becoming the CS)

Does timing matter?
-the CS should come before the UCS
-they should be very close together In timing

Pavlov spent the rest of his life outlining his ideas. He came up with 5 critical terms that together make up classical conditioning
-acquisition
-extinction
-spontaneous recovery
-generalization
-discrimination

Unconditioned stimulus (UCS): a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response

Unconditional response(UCR): the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the UCS

Classical conditioning: it all started with Ivan Pavlov

Three main types of learning
-classical conditioning
-operant conditioning
-observational conditioning
-latent learning
-abstract learning
-insight learning

Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together

Deja vu: that eerie sense that you have experienced something before
-what is occurring is that the current situation cues past experience that

Conditioned stimulus (CS): an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with the UCS, comes to trigger a response

Conditioned response(CR): the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus