01:160:161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Behaviorism
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Basic terminology - learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior that is based upon experience. Behaviorism - behaviorists insist that psychologists should study only observable, measurable behaviors, not mental processes. We live in a universes of cause and effect. Our behavior is apart of that universe, behavior must have identifiable causes. Early behaviorists believed that it might be possible to determine the basic laws of learning by studying how animals learn. Nonassociative: learning about a stimulus such as light or sound in the external world. Habituation: when our behavioral response to a stimulus decreases. Sensitization: when our behavioral response to stimulus increases. Associative: learning the relationship between two pieces of information. Operant conditioning: learn that a certain behavior leads to a certain outcome. Observational: learning by watching how others behave. Studied digestion in dogs and noted associative conditioning between neural stimuli and meat powder (pavlovian conditioning) Us (unconditioned stimulus): biologically significant stimulus that produces automatic response (giving the meat powder)
