PsychSim 5: Classical Conditioning

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PsychSim 5: CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Mizani Washburn Name: __________________________________________

Section: ________________________

12/03/13 Date: __________________________________________

This activity provides a review of Pavlovs famous experiment on the salivary response in dogs, as well as the basic processes of classical conditioning: acquisition, generalization, discrimination training, and extinction. Salivary Response In Pavlovs famous experiment, what did he call the o o o o

meat powder unconditioned stimulus (UCS)? _______________________________

saliva unconditioned response (UCR)? _______________________________ bell conditioned stimulus (CS)? __________________________________

saliva dog produced to the bell conditioned response (CR)? __________________________________

A New Salivary Response Pavlov demonstrated that the dog had formed a conditioned association between two events. What were those events? What did the dog actually learn?

The bell ringing and the food it foreshadows. That the bell means food is imminent.

Acquisition In the example of a child who fears doctors, what label would you give to the painful injection? _____ UCS _____ UCR _____ CS _____ CR

In the example of a child who fears doctors, what label would you give to the presence of the doctor? _____ UCS _____ UCR _____ CS _____ CR

Demonstrating Acquisition How could we demonstrate that acquisition had occurredthat is, demonstrate that the child had learned the link between the doctor and the injection?

Break the link between the CS and the UCS, we do this by presenting the CS without the UCS.

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Extinction What is extinction? The process of unlearning or removing a conditioned association What is spontaneous recovery? The return of response after a rest period Generalization What is generalization?

Using what information that available to draw a conclusion

Discrimination What is discrimination? recognition of different stimuli and responding thusly Conditioning an Eye Blink eye blink What is the CR in this example? _____________________

tone What is the CS in this example? ____________________

air pump What is the UCS in this example? _____________________
What is the UCR in this example? ____________________ Experiment Simulation Why are we interested only in the blinks that occur before the puff of air? It is an immediate response

Discrimination Trials How would you interpret these graphs? Did your subject show evidence of stimulus generalization, or stimulus discrimination, or both?
Both. The knowledge of the stimulus affected the response.

Extinction Trials How would you interpret these results? Has the conditioned response been extinguished in your subject? What would happen if we continued immediately with more trials? What would happen if we brought her back to the laboratory tomorrow for more trials?
The subject would develop her responses to the presented stimuli