PSYCH 100 Lecture 12: Learning

• School: PSU
• Department: Psychology - CA
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Meghan Gillen

Document Summary

Learning a relatively permanent change in an organism"s be savior due to experience. Cognitive approach: one of the primary ways we learn is through association mentally connecting the occurrence of 2 events with each other. Ivan pavlov (1849-1936: russian physician/neurophysiologist, studied digestive systems of humans and animals, stumbled upon the concept of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning subject comes to automatically associate 2 stimuli a neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus. Response a behavior that occurs due to a stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us) stimulus that automatically and naturally triggered a response the dog food. Unconditioned response (ur) the naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus salivation when seeing and smelling the food. Neutral stimulus (ns) stimulus that initially causes no response is paired with the unconditioned stimulus the tuning fork after conditioning.