PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

We start the action: cognitive (observational) learning: acquiring new behaviours and information through observation and information, rather than by direct experience. Behaviourism: started with proponents that mental life was much less important than behaviour as a foundation for psychological science (skinner and watson). Ian pavlov (1849-1936), won a nobel prize studying digestion. He noticed that his dogs salivated at the sound of a bell. Bell was a neutral stimulus, caused no response. Food was an unconditioned stimulus, caused the unconditioned response: dog salivates. The neutral stimulus of the bell + the unconditioned stimulus of the food causes the unconditioned response of the dog salivating. The conditioned stimulus of the bell, causes the conditioned response of the dog salivating. Neutral stimulus (ns): a stimulus which does not trigger a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) and response (ur): a stimulus which triggers a response naturally, before/without any conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a stimulus that will trigger the learned cr.