PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: B. F. Skinner, Habituation, Classical Conditioning

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

Document Summary

The resoinse to a repeated, contant stimulue becomes smaller and eventually ceases. This could be a result of adaptation or habituation. Features of incoming stimulus comapred to what exisit in memory. If they match, response will be smaller and eventually not occur. Habituatuon involves the formation of new memories and learning, we learn not to respond. The formation of memories in these simple n. s is assumed to be the saem as in more complex. Formation of memoreis involves a change in a n. s. Principles first discovered by ivan pavlov in leningrad in the early 1920s. Associaton is formed between two previously unrelated stimuli ( Watson ladi out the basic tenets of the science of behavior. Psychology should study that which is overtly observable- behavior. The study of that (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is (cid:374)ot o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)a(cid:271)le soul, (cid:373)i(cid:374)d,(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory is (cid:271)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ed. Stimulus (s), response (r) and the consequences of resonding. Following learningm, the rate of responding increases dramatically.