PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Behavioralism, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
29 Sep 2016
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Learning: any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge from experience behavioralist de nition. Conditioning: learning associations between environmental stimuli and organisms responses. Ex. turning on drill in room full of people who have had llings. Ex. work and get a paycheck for it or you study and you get a grade for it. Classical conditioning classical conditioning: learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Bring dog food to dog and the dog starts salivating dog did not have to be taught this = unconditioned stimulus. Bell starts out as a neutral stimulus ring bell when food is brought out which makes dog salivate = Ex. dog learned to salivate to bell because it was paired to the food. Stimulus contiguity: stimuli occur together in space or time. Best: conditioned stimulus just before the other ring bell rst then bring the food.
