Definitions

• what is an unconditioned stimulus?

  any stimulus producing an unlearned response
• what is a neutral stimulus?

  an environmental stimulus that does not its self produce a response
• what is a conditioned response?

  a behaviour that is shown in response to a learned stimulus
• what is stimulus generalisation?

  a conditioned response that may be produced by a stimuli that is similar to the conditioned stimuli
• what is discrimination in this context?

  tendency for the conditioned stimulus to produce the same behaviour to a stimulus after a response has been conditioned
• what happens when an conditioned response is extinguished?

  removal of the conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus disassociate the 2 stimulus
• what is spontaneous recovery?

  bringing back the conditioned stimulus that has been extinguished to be quickly relearnt
• what is good about the evidence?

  • pavlov demonstrated that stimuli can be paired together so that a new stimulus (metronome) can produced a conditioned response
  • Watson and Rayner showed how a phobia can be classically conditioned
  • this evidence was carried out in controlled with standardised procedures allowing replication.
• What was the negative about the evidence

  generalising the findings because pavlov studied dogs and Watson studied a little child.
• what was the application for the evidence?

  • applied to the treatment of the phobias - systematic desensitisation and flooding.
  • applied to the treatment of addiction - aversion therapy
  • classical conditioning that has been advertised for products and classical conditioning.