PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Habituation
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Chapter focuses on the manner in which we learn to behave in certain ways given certain environmental conditions (and how critical is that?: learning. The emphasis will be primarily on stimulus response mappings. There will be very little discussion of cognitive states of and how they are formed processes: which contrasts quite strongly with the methods that are more popular today. We come equipped with many stimulus response mappings that. These associations are the produce of evolution (r creation) and the components of them are labeled as unconditioned stimuli (ucs) and unconditioned responses (ucr: food (ucs) digestive process (ucr) Weird house noises you no longer hear. A dogs reflection: basically, if the cr proves itself unnecessary in the presence of some ucs. Classical conditioning: the extension of sr mappings to new stimuli. Russian scientist, ivan pavlov stumbled across an interesting phenomenon while studying how the canine digestive system worked.
