What is the unlearned reflexive response that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus

1. Preface

2. 1 Introduction to Psychology

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   • What is an unconditioned stimulus response?
   • What is the term for the formerly neutral stimulus that acquires the capacity to elicit a reflexive response?
   • What is a reflexive behavior that is brought by a stimulus called?
   • What is an unlearned stimulus?
   1. Introduction
   2. 1.1What Is Psychology?
   3. 1.2 History of Psychology
   4. 1.3Contemporary Psychology
   5. 1.4Careers in Psychology
   6. Key Terms
   7. Summary
   8. Review Questions
   9. Critical Thinking Questions
   10. Personal Application Questions
3. 1. Introduction
   2. 2.1Why Is Research Important?
   3. 2.2Approaches to Research
   4. 2.3Analyzing Findings
   5. 2.4Ethics
   6. Key Terms
   7. Summary
   8. Review Questions
   9. Critical Thinking Questions
   10. Personal Application Questions
4. 1. Introduction
   2. 3.1Human Genetics
   3. 3.2Cells of the Nervous System
   4. 3.3Parts of the Nervous System
   5. 3.4The Brain and Spinal Cord
   6. 3.5The Endocrine System
   7. Key Terms
   8. Summary
   9. Review Questions
   10. Critical Thinking Questions
   11. Personal Application Questions

5. 4 States of Consciousness

   1. Introduction
   2. 4.1What Is Consciousness?
   3. 4.2Sleep and Why We Sleep
   4. 4.3Stages of Sleep
   5. 4.4Sleep Problems and Disorders
   6. 4.5Substance Use and Abuse
   7. 4.6Other States of Consciousness
   8. Key Terms
   9. Summary
   10. Review Questions
   11. Critical Thinking Questions
   12. Personal Application Questions

6. 5 Sensation and Perception

   1. Introduction
   2. 5.1 Sensation versus Perception
   3. 5.2Waves and Wavelengths
   4. 5.3Vision
   5. 5.4Hearing
   6. 5.5The Other Senses
   7. 5.6Gestalt Principles of Perception
   8. Key Terms
   9. Summary
   10. Review Questions
   11. Critical Thinking Questions
   12. Personal Application Questions
7. 1. Introduction
   2. 6.1What Is Learning?
   3. 6.2Classical Conditioning
   4. 6.3Operant Conditioning
   5. 6.4Observational Learning (Modeling)
   6. Key Terms
   7. Summary
   8. Review Questions
   9. Critical Thinking Questions
   10. Personal Application Questions

8. 7 Thinking and Intelligence

   1. Introduction
   2. 7.1 What Is Cognition?
   3. 7.2Language
   4. 7.3Problem Solving
   5. 7.4What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
   6. 7.5Measures of Intelligence
   7. 7.6The Source of Intelligence
   8. Key Terms
   9. Summary
   10. Review Questions
   11. Critical Thinking Questions
   12. Personal Application Questions
9. 1. Introduction
   2. 8.1How Memory Functions
   3. 8.2Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
   4. 8.3Problems with Memory
   5. 8.4Ways to Enhance Memory
   6. Key Terms
   7. Summary
   8. Review Questions
   9. Critical Thinking Questions
   10. Personal Application Questions
10. 1. Introduction
    2. 9.1What Is Lifespan Development?
    3. 9.2Lifespan Theories
    4. 9.3Stages of Development
    5. 9.4Death and Dying
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
    10. Personal Application Questions

11. 10 Emotion and Motivation

    1. Introduction
    2. 10.1 Motivation
    3. 10.2Hunger and Eating
    4. 10.3Sexual Behavior
    5. 10.4Emotion
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
    10. Personal Application Questions
12. 1. Introduction
    2. 11.1What Is Personality?
    3. 11.2Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
    4. 11.3Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
    5. 11.4Learning Approaches
    6. 11.5Humanistic Approaches
    7. 11.6Biological Approaches
    8. 11.7Trait Theorists
    9. 11.8Cultural Understandings of Personality
    10. 11.9Personality Assessment
    11. Key Terms
    12. Summary
    13. Review Questions
    14. Critical Thinking Questions
    15. Personal Application Questions
13. 1. Introduction
    2. 12.1What Is Social Psychology?
    3. 12.2Self-presentation
    4. 12.3Attitudes and Persuasion
    5. 12.4Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
    6. 12.5Prejudice and Discrimination
    7. 12.6Aggression
    8. 12.7Prosocial Behavior
    9. Key Terms
    10. Summary
    11. Review Questions
    12. Critical Thinking Questions
    13. Personal Application Questions

14. 13 Industrial-Organizational Psychology

    1. Introduction
    2. 13.1What Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
    3. 13.2Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees
    4. 13.3Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work
    5. 13.4Human Factors Psychology and Workplace Design
    6. Key Terms
    7. Summary
    8. Review Questions
    9. Critical Thinking Questions
    10. Personal Application Questions

15. 14 Stress, Lifestyle, and Health

    1. Introduction
    2. 14.1What Is Stress?
    3. 14.2Stressors
    4. 14.3Stress and Illness
    5. 14.4Regulation of Stress
    6. 14.5The Pursuit of Happiness
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
    11. Personal Application Questions

16. 15 Psychological Disorders

    1. Introduction
    2. 15.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
    3. 15.2Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
    4. 15.3Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
    5. 15.4Anxiety Disorders
    6. 15.5Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
    7. 15.6Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    8. 15.7Mood Disorders
    9. 15.8Schizophrenia
    10. 15.9Dissociative Disorders
    11. 15.10Personality Disorders
    12. 15.11Disorders in Childhood
    13. Key Terms
    14. Summary
    15. Review Questions
    16. Critical Thinking Questions
    17. Personal Application Questions
17. 1. Introduction
    2. 16.1Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
    3. 16.2Types of Treatment
    4. 16.3Treatment Modalities
    5. 16.4Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
    6. 16.5The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
    7. Key Terms
    8. Summary
    9. Review Questions
    10. Critical Thinking Questions
    11. Personal Application Questions
18. References
19. Index

acquisitionperiod of initial learning in classical conditioning in which a human or an animal begins to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus will begin to elicit the conditioned responseassociative learningform of learning that involves connecting certain stimuli or events that occur together in the environment (classical and operant conditioning)classical conditioninglearning in which the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired or associated with the behaviorcognitive mapmental picture of the layout of the environmentconditioned response (CR)response caused by the conditioned stimulusconditioned stimulus (CS)stimulus that elicits a response due to its being paired with an unconditioned stimulus continuous reinforcementrewarding a behavior every time it occursextinctiondecrease in the conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the conditioned stimulusfixed interval reinforcement schedulebehavior is rewarded after a set amount of timefixed ratio reinforcement scheduleset number of responses must occur before a behavior is rewardedhabituationwhen we learn not to respond to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly without changehigher-order conditioning(also, second-order conditioning) using a conditioned stimulus to condition a neutral stimulus instinctunlearned knowledge, involving complex patterns of behavior; instincts are thought to be more prevalent in lower animals than in humanslatent learninglearning that occurs, but it may not be evident until there is a reason to demonstrate itlaw of effectbehavior that is followed by consequences satisfying to the organism will be repeated and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences will be discouragedlearningchange in behavior or knowledge that is the result of experiencemodelperson who performs a behavior that serves as an example (in observational learning)negative punishmenttaking away a pleasant stimulus to decrease or stop a behaviornegative reinforcementtaking away an undesirable stimulus to increase a behaviorneutral stimulus (NS)stimulus that does not initially elicit a response observational learningtype of learning that occurs by watching othersoperant conditioningform of learning in which the stimulus/experience happens after the behavior is demonstratedpartial reinforcementrewarding behavior only some of the timepositive punishmentadding an undesirable stimulus to stop or decrease a behaviorpositive reinforcementadding a desirable stimulus to increase a behaviorprimary reinforcerhas innate reinforcing qualities (e.g., food, water, shelter, sex)punishmentimplementation of a consequence in order to decrease a behaviorreflexunlearned, automatic response by an organism to a stimulus in the environmentreinforcementimplementation of a consequence in order to increase a behaviorsecondary reinforcerhas no inherent value unto itself and only has reinforcing qualities when linked with something else (e.g., money, gold stars, poker chips)shapingrewarding successive approximations toward a target behaviorspontaneous recoveryreturn of a previously extinguished conditioned response stimulus discriminationability to respond differently to similar stimuli stimulus generalizationdemonstrating the conditioned response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus unconditioned response (UCR)natural (unlearned) behavior to a given stimulus unconditioned stimulus (UCS)stimulus that elicits a reflexive responsevariable interval reinforcement schedulebehavior is rewarded after unpredictable amounts of time have passedvariable ratio reinforcement schedulenumber of responses differ before a behavior is rewardedvicarious punishmentprocess where the observer sees the model punished, making the observer less likely to imitate the model’s behaviorvicarious reinforcementprocess where the observer sees the model rewarded, making the observer more likely to imitate the model’s behavior

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What is an unconditioned stimulus response?

What is the term for the formerly neutral stimulus that acquires the capacity to elicit a reflexive response?

What is a reflexive behavior that is brought by a stimulus called?

What is an unlearned stimulus?