PSYC 1010 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - Learning This Lecture went on for 2 and a half weeks. It is all on the chapter of learning.

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

Document Summary

Learning is a relatively durable change in behaviour that occurs as a result of experience or practice - (meaning if you have learnt something you were not able to do before) Durable meaning it is not permanent because although you have learnt something your memory plays a factor and the information may fade away. Types of learning (conditioning: classical conditioning (pavlov, operant or instrumental (skinner, observational. Learning is an association between two different things (events) When exposed to one of the things you usually automatically associate it with the other thing. The experiment with the dog where he collected the saliva being produced by the dog when seeing food. The dog started salivating when hearing the sound of a bell (the connection between the bell and the food) A bell was going off while there was a presentation with food and the dog automatically associated the food with the bell.