Explain the basic framework for understanding classical conditioning.
Define: Unconditional Stimulus (UCS), Conditional Stimulus (CS), Unconditional Response(UCR), and Conditional Response (CR).
Describe the procedure for acquisition trials and extinction trials.
Explain the results of acquisition or extinction.
Explain the factors (temporal contiguity and predictability) that affect the strength of a classically conditioned association.
List examples of organisms that can be classically conditioned.
List examples of responses that can be conditioned in humans.
Explain examples of how humans can become conditioned.
Describe ways to eliminate undesirable responses.
Explain why an avoidant response is more difficult to eliminate than other kinds of responses.
Describe the phenomena of generalization, discrimination, spontaneous recovery, second order and higher order conditioning, and sensory pre-conditioning.
Explain why these phenomena were important for supporting the claims of the early radical behaviorists.
Describe the biological constraints on the principles of classical conditioning.
Explain the evidence that supports the claim that there are biological constraints on the principles of classical conditioning.
Describe how counterconditioning differs from extinction.
Explain why the importance of predictability in conditioning suggests that there is a cognitive component to conditioning.