PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Classical Conditioning, Psych, Intellectual Disability

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: Dewin

Document Summary

Mental abilities that enable one to adapt to, shape to, or select one"s environment. Ability to deal with novel experiences (vs. past experiences) Ability to understand and deal with people, objects, and symbols. Ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with the environment (critical thinking) Above mean or iq score of 68 or 70) Animal behaviors are learned or innate: innate- any inborn behavior as a result of maturation only, not from practice. Humans have reflexive behavior (single response) rather innate behavior (as defined above) Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior (potential) or mental processes from practice or experience: learning not = performance! Conditioning: process of learning associations between environmental and internal* stimuli and responses; no stimuli, no response: *emotions can be internal stimuli. Two types of classical conditioning responses: reflex- an automatic response to a stimulus, emotional responses- feelings (love, fear, etc )