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A type of learning in which one learns to link
two or more stimuli and anticipate events.
Russian Physiologist
 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine
 His studies of in digestion accidentally led
to his famous discovery of classical
conditioning
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Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
A stimulus that unconditionally –
naturally and automatically- triggers a
response.
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In Classical Conditioning it is the initial
stage, when one links a neutral stimulus
and an unconditioned stimulus so that
the neutral stimulus begins triggering the
conditioned response.
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In Operant Conditioning it is the
strengthening of a reinforced response
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In classical conditioning occurs when an
unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow
a conditioned stimulus (CS).
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In operant conditioning occurs when a
response is no longer reinforced.
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The tendency once a response has been
conditioned, for stimulus similar to the
conditioned stimulus to elicit the similar
response
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When the learned ability to distinguish
between a conditioned stimulus and
stimuli that do not signal an
unconditioned stimilus