PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reinforcement, Latent Learning, Organism

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

Document Summary

The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Memory is the persistence of learning over time. Types of learning: nonassociative learning: refers to habituation or ta a decreases response upon repetition of a stimulus. Not to be confused with sensory adaptation, which doesn"t involve memory: associative learning: occurs when subject links certain events, behaviours, or stimuli together in the process of conditioning. Classical conditioning: to learn that a certain stimulus is linked to another. Operant conditioning: to learn that a particular response will lead to a certain outcome: cognitive learning: occurs without direct experience. Research on this topic of learning is known as behaviourism: Empirically rigorous science founded by bf skinner, a leader in research about operant conditioning, and john b watson, a proponent of classical conditioning, in the 1920s. Focused on observable behaviours and not unobservable internal mental processes. Before conditioning, a neutral stimulus does not trigger a response.