PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Food Presentation, Can Opener, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Learning relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs because of experience. Behaviourism - behaviour can be studied without referring to mental states. Social-cognitive learning - reintroduced mental processes to learning. Learning that results from associations of neutral environment stimuli with automatic responses. Used food to induce salivation in dogs. Dogs salivate to stimuli that wasn"t even food. Conditional re ex - response conditional on environment. Dog salivated when it saw the bowl, person and even heard the footsteps of the person. All of these things are predictors of the occurrence of food. Unconditioned stimulus (us) - stimulus that elicits a re exive response in the absence of learning. Unconditioned response (ur) - re exive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning - behaviour. Conditioned stimulus (cs) - initially neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr) - re exive response elicited by the conditional stimulus.