PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Pangs, Fear
6 Apr 2018
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Process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. We are able to adapt to our environment through learning. Adaptability is our capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with our changing world. We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain. Stimuli that are not control are associated and response is automatic (respondent behavior) Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Our behaviors become associated with the contexts. Our next experience of the context then evokes our habitual response. We typically learn to repeat acts that bring rewards and avoid acts that bring unwanted results. Association between a response and consequences are learned. The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning)
