PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Stimulus Control

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Describe how behaviours are acquired (and extinguished) through classical conditioning. Describe how behaviours are acquired through operant conditioning, including shaping and chaining. Describe observational learning, imprinting, instinctive drift, and cognitive approaches to learning, including the concepts of latent learning and cognitive maps. The operational definition of learning is a more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience . The definition also excludes things like getting used to smell, which is due instead to short- term sensory adaption or physical changes that come from maturation. Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which the animal learns an association between two stimuli. The operational measurement of learning was how much a dog salivated to the non-food stimulus. E. g the experiment who normally gave them food.