MCAT BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES CHAPTER 3.1 HIGH YIELD QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2025

learning - ANSWER refers specifically to the way in which we acquire new behaviors stimulus - ANSWER anything as to which an organism can respond habituation - ANSWER a decrease in response caused by repeated exposure to the same stimulus subthreshold stimulus - ANSWER a stimulus that is too weak to elicit a response dishabituation - ANSWER the recovery of a response to a stimulus after habituation has occurred associative learning - ANSWER the creation of a pairing or association either between two stimuli or between a behavior and a response classical conditioning - ANSWER a type of associative learning that takes advantage if biological, instinctual responses to create associations between two unrelated stimuli unconditioned stimulus - ANSWER any stimulus that brings about a reflexive response unconditioned response - ANSWER the innate or reflexive response caused by an unconditioned stimulus conditioned stimulus - ANSWER an initially neutral stimulus that is paired unconditioned stimulus to train a behavioral response, rendering a previously neutral stimulus a conditioned stimulus conditioned response - ANSWER the reflexive response caused by a conditioned stimulus extinction - ANSWER refers to the loss of a conditioned response ad can occur if the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly represented without the unconditioned stimulus spontaneous recovery - ANSWER after some time, presenting subjects again with an extinct condition stimulus will sometimes produced a weak conditioned response generalization - ANSWER a broadening effect by which a stimulus similar enough to the conditioned stimulus can also produce the conditioned response stimuli discrimination - ANSWER an organism learns to distinguish between similar stimuli