AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -stimulus any event or situation that evokes a response. respondent behavior behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. In classical conditioning, we learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. (A stimulus is any event or situation that evokes a response.)

Detailed explanation-2: -The first stimulus was one that evoked the response to be tested, without prior experience. These types of stimulus-response pairs are known as innate reflexes, and the stimulus is named an unconditioned stimulus (US) and its response an unconditioned response (UCR).

Detailed explanation-3: -conditioning, in physiology, a behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement, with reinforcement typically being a stimulus or reward for a desired response.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of stimuli and their responses: You are hungry so you eat some food. A rabbit gets scared so it runs away. You are cold so you put on a jacket.

Detailed explanation-5: -With repeated exposures to both the neutral stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus at the same time, the neutral stimulus will begin to elicit a response known as a conditioned response. Once the neutral stimulus elicits this conditioned response, the neutral stimulus becomes known as a conditioned stimulus.