PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Observational Learning, Matching Law, Reinforcement

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Lecture 8: learning: relatively durable change due to experience, hindsight phenomenon: knew it all along , elements that are simple but are basic building blocks of behaviour. Smell of pizza makes you hungry: trial: a presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli (measurements), trials can be connected with (classical conditioning): Fear bridge collapsing cause anxiety from bridges , Emotional responses smelly garbage with making money (garbageman), Advertising pair product with comforting images , Business negotiations high end restaurant to sell product, Physiological responses can be conditioned to react from an image, Seductive clothing things associated with sex can cause response. Compensatory conditioned responses: tries to maintain control of body while impaired, allows you to counteract impairment, develops tolerance for impairment. Smoking desire when drinking coffee or beer: compensatory responses won"t affect you in a new environment, change lifestyle and patterns of behaviour to change conditional response. Initial stage of learning something: depends on stimulus contiguity, automatic process.