Answer: discrimination
In classical conditioning _____ is the learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimuli that do not signal a US.
The best-known and most thorough early work on classical conditioning was done by Ivan Pavlov although Edwin Twitmyerpublished some related findings a year earlier. During his research on the physiology of digestion in dogs Pavlov developed a procedure that enabled him to study the digestive processes of animals over long periods of time. He redirected the animal's digestive fluids outside the body where they could be measured. Pavlov noticed that his dogs began to salivate in the presence of …
In classical conditioning discrimination is the ability to differentiate between the CS and other stimuli that have not been paired with the US. Therefore we get the development of a CR when one stimulus is presented however not when other very similar stimuli are presented.
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Classical conditioning is an example of a learned association. The classical conditioning process consists of four elements: unconditioned stimulus (UCS ) unconditioned response (UCR) conditioned stimulus (CS) and conditioned response (CR). Without conditioning there is already a relationship between the unconditioned stimulus and the unconditioned response.
Associative learning is the process by which a person or animal learns an association between two stimuli or events. In classical conditioning a previously neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with a reflex eliciting stimulus until eventually the neutral stimulus elicits a response on its own.
In contrast classical conditioning involves involuntary behavior based on the pairing of stimuli with biologically significant events. The responses are under the control of some stimulus because they are reflexes automatically elicited by the appropriate stimuli.
The reward system (the mesocorticolimbic circuit) is a group of ne...

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