PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Educational Technology, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning
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3 types of responses to stimuli: reflexes. Inborn patterns of behaviour elicited by environmental stimuli. A relatively permanent change in behaviour or the capacity for behaviour that occurs due to experience. Change the magnitude of responses to a kind of stimulus. Learning by watching the actions an experience of another. Acquisition the initial stage of learning something. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Explained learning solely in terms of directly observable events. Occurs when we form connections among stimuli and/or behaviours. Pavlov studied salivary responses in dogs: classical/pavlovian conditioning type of learning, stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) a stimulus that naturally and reliably evokes a response. Unconditioned response (ucr) the response that is naturally and reliably elicited by the ucs. Neutral stimulus (ns) a stimulus that does not initially elicit the unconditioned response.
