PSYC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
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Learning is an enduring change in how an organism responds based on its experience. Learned association between a stimulus and the response s-r stimulus- response psychology. Classical operant conditioning; significant environmental events such as. Pavlov"s dogs = classical pairs two stimuli. Skinners rates =operant pairs behaviour and response. Focuses on observable behaviours, and identify stimuli and a response. Unconditioned response reflex response to ucs. Conditioned response learned response to the cs. Conditioned stimulus neutral stimulus after being conditioned. Repeatedly pairing cs and ucs together results in acquisition of the pairing, and contiguity. Repeatedly presenting the cs alone causes contingency. After extinction of conditioning, and is slowly forgotten but is just inhibited and suppressed over the passage of time. Learned fear through a conditioned emotional response. Acquired through: traumatic experiences, modelling, transmission of misinformation, evolutionary preparedness. Reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of non-exposure. Reinforcers, strengthen the tendency to make a certain response.
