Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Educational Psychology, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: hutchinson

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Saturday, october 28, 2017 educational psychology textbook notes chapter 7 behavioural views of learning. Learning process through which experience causes permanent change in knowledge or behaviour: may be deliberate or unintentional, to qualify as learning this change must be brought around by experience. Behavioural learning theories explanations of learning that focus on external events as the cause of changes in observable behaviours. Later when only one of these sensations (stimulus) occurs the other will be remembered too (response: stimulus event that activates behaviour, response observable reaction to a stimulus. Plays a major role in classical conditioning: classical conditioning association of automatic responses with new stimuli (pavlov) Focuses on the learning of involuntary emotional or physiological responses such as fear, increased muscle tension, salivation or sweating aka respondents responses (generally automatic or involuntary) elicited by speci c stimuli. Neutral stimulus stimulus not connected to a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) stimulus that automatically produces an emotional or physiological response.