Conditioned Stimulus
Salivation is a natural response to the presence of food (unconditioned stimulus) and is not typically considered a conditioned stimulus. However, in a classical conditioning context, salivation can become a conditioned response if it is consistently paired with a neutral stimulus (like a bell) that initially elicits no salivation, but comes to do so after repeated pairings with the food.
Neutral stimulus
This is known as classical conditioning, a type of learning where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a response. The neutral stimulus eventually becomes a conditioned stimulus that triggers the same response.
A response caused by a neutral stimulus is known as a conditioned response. This occurs when the neutral stimulus becomes associated with a unconditioned stimulus through conditioning, leading to a learned response.
It's a previously neutral action which comes to be associated with a real stimulus so that eventually it will cause the response. The classic example is with Pavlov's dogs. He showed them food (stimulus), causing them to salivate (response). At the same time he rang a bell. Eventually they would salivate at the sound of the bell alone. The bell was a conditioned stimulus.
Salivation is a natural response to the presence of food (unconditioned stimulus) and is not typically considered a conditioned stimulus. However, in a classical conditioning context, salivation can become a conditioned response if it is consistently paired with a neutral stimulus (like a bell) that initially elicits no salivation, but comes to do so after repeated pairings with the food.
The term that defines the dog's salivation in response to the ringing of the bell in Pavlov's experiment is "conditioned response." In this context, salivation becomes a learned response to the previously neutral stimulus (the bell) after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus (food). Initially, the dog salivates naturally to the food, but through conditioning, the bell alone elicits the salivation.
Neutral stimulus
This is known as classical conditioning, a type of learning where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a response. The neutral stimulus eventually becomes a conditioned stimulus that triggers the same response.
A response caused by a neutral stimulus is known as a conditioned response. This occurs when the neutral stimulus becomes associated with a unconditioned stimulus through conditioning, leading to a learned response.
It's a previously neutral action which comes to be associated with a real stimulus so that eventually it will cause the response. The classic example is with Pavlov's dogs. He showed them food (stimulus), causing them to salivate (response). At the same time he rang a bell. Eventually they would salivate at the sound of the bell alone. The bell was a conditioned stimulus.
In classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus will trigger the conditioned response. It is also referred to as respondent conditioning.
A neutral stimulus is a stimulus that initially does not elicit a specific response. In classical conditioning, the neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus through repeated pairing, eventually causing the neutral stimulus to elicit the same response as the meaningful stimulus.
This process is called classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus until the neutral stimulus alone can produce the same response as the unconditioned stimulus. This creates a conditioned response, where the neutral stimulus now elicits the same response as the unconditioned stimulus.
In Pavlov's experiments with dogs, the unconditional response was the dogs' salivation when they were presented with food. This response occurred naturally and automatically without any prior conditioning, demonstrating the dogs' innate physiological reaction to the food stimulus. Pavlov's work illustrated how a neutral stimulus, like a bell, could be paired with the food to eventually elicit salivation through conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov is the researcher most closely associated with the study of classical conditioning. He is known for his experiments using dogs to demonstrate how pairing a neutral stimulus (such as a bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (such as food) can lead to a learned response (salivation) to the neutral stimulus alone.
An unconditioned response is automatic and unlearned, triggered by a specific stimulus. A conditioned response, on the other hand, is learned through association with a neutral stimulus that was previously paired with an unconditioned stimulus.