Across
- 7. ________ stimulus: any stimulus that produces a naturally occurring, automatic response
- 8. a series of complex, species-specific behaviours that are not learned
- 9. the brains ability to change itself
- 11. a reaction by an organism to a stimulus
- 12. the gradual decrease in the strength of the CR when the UCS is no longer presented with the CS
- 13. the process during which an organism learns to associate two events/stimuli
- 15. the process of creating a new synapse to facilitate learning
Down
- 1. ______ response: the learned response that is produced by the CS
- 2. experience _________ learning: the brains readiness to receive certain experiences so that it develop in certain areas
- 3. stimulus ______: the tendency for another stimulus that is similar to the CS to produce a response similar to the CR
- 4. stimulus ______: occurs when an organism responds only to the CS but no other similar stimulus
- 5. the orderly sequence of changes that occurs in the body that leads towards maturity
- 6. the process by which neural pathways are redirected around damaged neurons
- 10. stimulus ______: a stimulus that does not naturally produce a response
- 14. a simple, automatic behaviour that is not learned
- 16. synaptic _________: the process of eliminating unused synaptic connections