PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Conditioning, Psy, Reinforcement

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

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Classical conditiong: while studying salivation in dogs, ivan pavolov found that salivation from eating food was eventually triggered by what should have been neutral stimuli such as: Before conditions, a neutrual stimulus does not trigger a response. An unconditioned stimlus is a stimulus that triggers a response naturally (unconditioned response), before/without any conditioning, for example the dog"s food. During contitioning , the neutral stimulus is repeatedly presented with the unconditioned stimulus:for example neural stimulus(bell), unconditioned stimulus(food), unconditioned response( dog salivates) Classical conditioning a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Acuquisition: initial stage of learning/conditions, where we establish an association between a ns and an us. We can tell that acquistion has ocurred when the ur now gets triggered by a cs. Timing: for the association to be acquired, the ns needs to repeatedly appear about a hald-second before the us: