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respondent conditioning
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
02/11/2013

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Term
respondent behavior
Definition

E.g., Salivation, shivering, sweating, knee jerk, vomiting

  • reflexive
  • involuntary
  • elicited by antecednet stimuli: S->R...E.g. Food, cold, heat, tap on patellar tendon, finger
Term
unconditioned stimulus
Definition

Stimulus that elicits a response without prior consitioning

Term
unconditioned response
Definition
response that is elicited by the US without prior conditoning
Term
phylogeny
Definition
history of the species
Term
ontogeny
Definition
history of the individual organism
Term
neutral stimulus
Definition
stimulus that does not elicit any response
Term
respondent conditioning
Definition
process of pairing an NS with a US that elicits a particular UR until the NS becomes capable of eliciting a similar response.
Term
conditioned stimulus
Definition
stimulus that elicits a CR due to its history of reliable and repeated pairings with a US
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Conditioned response
Definition
response elicited by a CS
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respondent acquisition
Definition
procedure of repeated paiting of CS and US over trials
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