PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Amygdala, Fallacy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Learning any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience environment. Classical conditioning a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that. Conditioning -learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s was originally evoked by another stimulus (cid:523))van pavlov"s psychic reflex(cid:524) Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response. Unconditioned response (ucr) unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs) previously neutral stimulus that through conditioning has acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Evaluative conditioning changes in the liking of a stimulus that result from pairing that stimulus with other positive or negative stimuli. Immunosuppression a decrease in the production of antibodies from classical conditioning. Acquisition of a conditioned response depends on stimulus continuity. Stimuli that are novel, unusual or especially intense have more potential to become cs. Gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.