PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning, Chemotherapy
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Learning: a process that produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of an individual"s experience. Conditioning: process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses. Classical: how stimuli can trigger and automatic response. Observational: how we acquire new behaviors by observing the actions of others. Salivation is a reflexive automatic response to the taste of food. Pavlov observed his dogs would start salivating before the food was placed in their mouths. Begins with stimulus that automatically elicits a reflexive or unlearned response. Then repeated pairings of a neutral stimulus with the response-producing stimulus. Finally, the neutral stimulus elicits the same response. Conditioning is learning an association between the neutral stimulus and the response- producing stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus: neutral stimulus that produces a response without prior learning. Conditioned stimulus: formerly neutral stimulus that acquires the capacity to elicit a reflexive response. Conditioned response: learned reflexive response to the conditioned stimulus.
