1. Learning is defined as: A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.  Learning refers not just to the skills acquired in school, but also to relatively permanent changes in behavior that occur because of experience.

2. Associations Associations-linking two events that occur close together For example: If a rat presses a lever to get food he must make the association between the lever and food so he knows that when he gets hungry he must press the lever.

3. CLASSICAL CONDITIONING Classical Conditioning – The process by which a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. - Also called Pavlovian or respondent conditioning - Ex: If you rang a bell every time you were going to feed your dog, after a certain amount of time, the dog would begin salivating in expectation on receiving food upon hearing the bell instead of actually seeing the food.

4.  Did experiments on dogs and took observations on their salivation  Won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904  Originally studied the Physiology of Digestion Pavlov Dog Experiment

5. Definition- The stimulus prior to conditioning that triggers an unconditioned response. The food is the unconditioned stimulus, and triggers the unconditioned response, which is salivation.

6. Unconditioned Response(UCR) The classical-conditioning term for a reflexive response elected by a stimulus in the absence of learning.

7. Conditioned Stimulus : The classical-conditioning term for an initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus

8. Conditioned Response : in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral conditioned stimulus

9. Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery Extinction- After Conditioning, if a conditioned stimulus is given without an unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned response disappears. Spontaneous Recovery- After a response disappears it may spontaneously reappear. Example: If you train a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell, but then you ring the bell every five minutes an don’t bring food, then the dog will salivate less and less until it stops. Example: However if you ring the bell the next day the dog might salivate.