PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Behaviorism, Little Albert Experiment, Caffeine
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Learning: relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of experience: taking info accumulated from daily life & making a change to ensure it lasts awhile, occurs all of the time at all ages. Conditioning: process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses. Classical conditioning: russian psychologist, studied digestion, discovered & was first to study pavlovian (classical) conditioning, studied subjective mental processes. Classical conditioning: basic learning process that involves repeatedly paring neutral stimulus with a response-producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response: neutral stimulus initially produces no response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) natural stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without the need for prior learning. Unconditioned response (ucr) unlearned, reflexive response that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs) formerly neutral stimulus that acquires the ability to elicit a reflexive response: same thing as neutral stimulus, but neutral stimulus becomes into conditioned stimulus when learned a new association.
