PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vending Machine, Stimulus Control, Classical Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Learning can be defined as a more-or-less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. From experience to separate from changes resulting from instinct (typical development) Ren descartes proposed that almost all behaviour was reflexive or due to inborn ideas, we are born the way we are and our life experiences play little or no role in shaping our behaviour. Empiricist philosophers believed that learning results from repeated experience. Objectives: describe how behaviours are acquired (and extinguished) through classical conditioning. Pavlov noticed the dogs began salivating when they saw the experimenter who usually gave the dogs food. Reasoned dogs had learned to associate experimenter with food. Assocations classical conditioning, consequences operant conditioning, and observational learning are three ways to learn. Type of learning when the animal learned the association between two stimuli. The stimulus that evokes the behavioural response of interest. This stimulus elicits a behaviour prior to any learning.