PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporal Punishment, Little Albert Experiment, Latent Inhibition
7 Nov 2015
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Change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Sensitization: responding more strongly to the same stimulus over time. Habituation: responding less strongly to the same stimulus over time. Classical conditioning: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have reaction. Operant conditioning: changing behaviour choices in response to consequences. Cognitive learning: acquiring new behaviors and information through observation and information, rather than by direct experience. British associationists (1800"s): school of thinkers who believed that we acquire all of our knowledge by conditioning. = form association between stimuli: once connection is made, we only need one element to retrieve the other from memory. = mental building blocks for higher order thinking. Russian physiologist and 1904 nobel prize winner. Most famous for work on digestion of the dog. Made an unexpected discovery about how animals learning. Neutral stimulus (ns: metronome (whatever is paired with the unconditioned stimulus)
