PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rebar, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reward System

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Process of acquiring new and enduring info or behaviours. Associative learning connecting certain events that occur in sequence eg. giving someone a red pen, associate with error or marking) Stimulus any even or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning the acquisition of mental information whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language e. g. observational learning (chimpanzees learn by watching others) Classical conditioning learn to associate two stimuli and thus anticipate events (e. g. when you see lighting you brace yourself for thunder) Where one learns to link 2 anticipated events. : herd of cattle wears pager on a farm, when he calls pager from cell phone food arrives, after a week the animals associated the beep from the pager witht he pod. I. e. blinking when dust is thrown into your eye (reflex) Unconditional stimulus (us) something that is not learned but triggers a response naturally and automatically. A stimulus that precedes the elicit (triggers) the ur (unconditional response)