Terms: Orienting Response Unconditioned Stimulus(UCS) Habituation Unconditioned Response(UCR) Conditioned Stimulus(CS) Conditioned Response(CR) Acquisition Spontaneous Recovery Generalization Discrimination Extinction

Learning the Jargon of Learning As a student, one of the things that makes understanding learning difficult is all of the new terminology that you must memorize. The purpose of this exercise is to help you practice using these terms. Your task is to match correctly each of the terms (listed to the left) with their definitions. This exercise deals exclusively with terms related to classical conditioning. A second exercise deals with terms related to operant conditioning. 1. Any stimulus that naturally elicits a reflexive response. 2. The elicitation of a CR when one CS (the CS+) appears, but not when another stimulus (the CS-) appears. 3. Any period of time during which a conditioned response (CR) first appears and then increases in strength or frequency. 4. Any stimulus that, because of its repeated association with the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), comes to elicit the conditioned response (CR). 5. Any response by which an organism directs its sensory organs (eyes, ears, nose, and so on) toward a source of an unfamiliar stimulus. 6. The elimination of a conditioned response (CR) that results when the conditioned stimulus (CS) is presented but not followed by the unconditioned stimulus (UCS). 7. The phenomenon of not responding to the repeated occurrence of an unimportant stimulus. 8. The response elicited by the presence of the conditioned stimulus (CR). 9. The appearance of a conditioned response (CR) to a stimulus that is similar in some way to the conditioned stimulus (CS) during acquisition. 10. The reappearance of a conditioned response (CR) after an interval of time has passed since that response had been previously extinguished. 11. Any response that is naturally elicited by the unconditioned stimulus (UCS).