PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Operant Conditioning
15 Mar 2018
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Learning: any relative durable change in behavior or knowledge from experience. Cant be in one ear out the other, has to stick with you. Classical: learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Pavlov"s dogs: food and bell, dog fed every time bell rings, learns this pattern, and whenever bell rings the dog salivates because he is expecting to be fed. Call this unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response because they are naturally occurring. Bell alone is a conditioned stimulus and the dog salitvating is a conditioned response. Nature of response is dependent on the nature of the stimulus. Stimulus contiguity: the stimuli needs to occur together in time and spaces (can ring the bell and then an hour later give the dog food) Extinction: gradual weakening and disappearance of the conditioned response (ring bell and the salivating slowly disappears) a. b.
