PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Critical Path Method, Operant Conditioning, Learning Curve

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Info from the past msut be sorted: habituation = the simplest form of learning, snails can do it, repition of a stimulus the response becomes a smaller. If the sensory stimulus matches the memory processing in the ns stops: the nervous system detects change. Classical conditioning: unconditioned conditioned stimulus, unconditioned conditioned responses, acquisition, stimulus generalization stimulus discrimination, extinction spontaneous recovery, higher order conditioning. Learning curve: all learing takes time, the cr only occurs after a number of repetitions of cus-cs paring, the acquisition of learning can be traced as a learning curve. Extinction: remouve ucs results cr will gradually diminish this process is called extinction, over time the cr will gradually fade away. Spontaneous recovery: after extinction and after some delay, cs will elicit cr for a brief periode of time, this cr rapidly extinguishes. Generalization: following conditioning other stimuli similar to the cs will elicit cr, can explaine fears and phobias.