01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr. Brynildsen

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as the result of experience. Classical conditioning: learning process in which a previously neutral stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus through repeated pairing with that stimulus. Noticed that dogs salivated at mere sight of food dish learned to associate dish with food. Measured salivation in response to neutral stimulus presented alone. Unconditioned response (ur): innate response to unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that automatically elicits response without prior conditioning. Conditioned response (cr): learned response to a stimulus that did not originally evoke the response (previously ur) Conditioned stimulus (cs): previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response through association with us. Acquisition: stage of conditioning in which organism is learning the association between the cs and us. Generalization: when a cr has been associated with a particular stimulus, similar stimuli will evoke the same response.