Chapter 4

• Acquisition: Process of developing and strength of a Conditioned response through repeated pairing of NS with US
• Extinction: When a conditioned response is weakened and eventually eliminated
• Sometimes even after a behavior is unlearned, spontaneous recovery can occur
• Stimulus Generalization: response to a similar stimulus in the same way as the original
• Higher Order Conditioning: Pairing a new stimulus by pairing it with another already conditioned stimulus
• Stimulus Discrimination: Tendency for a response to be caused more by one stimulus than another
• Revaluation: Better food (or another US) causes more strength of the response of the CS
• Overshadowing: When a stronger stimuli more readily cause conditioning than others
• Blocking: Presence of established CS interferes with conditioning of new CS
• Latent inhibition: using a familiar stimulus will cause no reaction vs a unfamiliar stimulus
• Occasion Setting: one stimulus must be paired with another for there to a response
• Learning Inhibition: When unfamiliar stimulus is more readily conditioned than a familiar stimulus
• Asymptote: the high of response you can get out of a stimulus