PSY 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Motivation, Cognitive Map, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1305
• Professor: Danielle Young

Document Summary

What is learning: process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors. How do we learn: associative learning. Influenced by pavlov: theoretical goal of science of psychology is prediction and control of behavior. Behaviorism (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Pavlov: studied digestive system; first russian nobel prize (1904, demonstrated associative learning via salivary conditioning. Classical conditioning: one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Neutral stimulus (ns): a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Unconditioned response (ur): an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (us) (such as food in the mouth) Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response (ur) Acquisition: linking of a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response.