PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neural Adaptation, Classical Conditioning, Habituation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction. Occurs when 2 stimuli become associated with one another. Both cc and oc are called associative learning. Acquiring new behaviors and information through observation and information, rather than by direct experience. Learning a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or capabilities. If there is a reason to be aware of a sensation a behaviour will be produced. Sensory adaptation is a decreased sensory response to a constant stimulus. Sensitization in an increase in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus. When repeated presentation of loud tone the startle increases in intensity. Get a shock and if you get second one of same intensity you jump back more and pull hand back more quickly. Behaviorism is the view that psyc should be an objective science studies behaviours without taking mental processes into account.