PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
7 Aug 2013
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Learning a relatively permanent change in behavior or the potential to make a response that occurs as the result of an experience. Ian pavlov: physiologist interested in digestion, won noble prize in medicine in 1904, collected saliva from dogs, psychic secretion pavlov s term for reaction, saliva followed footsteps, unlocking the door, keys, stumbled upon classical conditioning. If we have the right stimulus, we can make the organism respond in a certain way. Unconditioned response (ucr) ucs gives rise to ucr. Before conditioning: cs means nothing, elicits no response (bell, ucs elicits ucr (hotdog) During conditioning: associate cs with ucs, elicits response. Elements of classical conditioning: generalization stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus will elicit the response. Extinction occurs with repeated presentation of cs alone without ucs: spontaneous recovery response will come back after extinction. Forces keeping you from responding weaken over time. (ex.
