PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Learning
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Learning - process of acquiring new information or behaviors through experiences. Cognitive learning - acquisition of mental information. Associative learning - learning that certain events occur together. Behaviorism- psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most agree with the beginning of this definition, but not the end. This formed the basis for pavlov"s studies. Novel experiments on learning earned his place in history. Showed learning processes are formed by events in an organism"s environment. Unconditioned response (ur) - unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us) - a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response. Neutral stimulus (ns) - a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Conditioned response (cr) - a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs) - an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with a us, comes to trigger a conditioned response.
