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, learning a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience
habituation an organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it
associative learning learning that certain events occur together.
classical conditioning a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate
events
behaviorism psychology: (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without
reference to mental processes.
unconditioned response (UR) the unlearned, naturally occurring reaction to US, such as salivation when food is in
the mouth
unconditioned stimulus (US) a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a reaction (like food)
conditioned response (CR) the learned reaction to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS)