PSY-1200 Lecture 3: Learning Lecture
19 Feb 2019
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. Associative learning: linking two events that occur close together in time. If the organism is learning associations between its behavior and the resulting events. Operant behavior is a behavior that operates on the environment producing rewarding or punishing stimuli. If the organism is learning associated between events that it does not control. Involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Studied the digestive system for two decades. Won the nobel prize for physiology in 1904. Accidentally discovered classical conditioning through his work on salivation with dogs. John watson applied the principles of classical conditioning to humans. Watson believed that human emotions and behaviors are merely a bundle of conditioned responses( conditioned emotional reactions or. Watson and a colleague, raynor, conditioned a baby to associate with the rats (cs) with loud noise (us) and fear them (cr). Ucs: steel bar hit with hammer natural reflect is fear.
