PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Discrimination Learning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Given period. environment, called stimuli (the plural of stimulus). future stimuli to future responses) Organisms that were able to (cid:498)learn(cid:499) (cid:523)i. e. determine relations among events(cid:524) were able to. But learning still occurs even if the environment is not changing the organism (cid:498)learns(cid:499) that. Not necessarily the same stimulus. (horror movie creaking floor: learning can not be observed directly, only inferred from changes in behaviour. The result of stimuli that are presented quickly in a short period: long-term habituation. Results when stimuli are spread over a longer period. Classical conditioning: pavlov & his dogs, classical conditioning involves learning about the conditions that predict that a significant event will occur, also called (cid:498)pavlovian conditioning(cid:499) Pavlov"s discovery: originally studying the mechanisms underlying digestion (not psychology, realized that the dogs had learned to anticipate the food based on environmental stimuli (the presence of the dish or the person doing the feeding)