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Please define the following key terms.
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Evoked Responses

Electrical potentials recorded from the nervous system following presentation of a stimulus, used to assess sensory function and neural pathways.

Extinction

The process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur. The learned responses are said to be extinguished.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, aiming at increasing or decreasing specific behaviors.

Voluntary Responses

Actions that are under conscious control, often in contrast to reflexive or automatic responses.

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