PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tunxis Community College, Gestalt Psychology, Behaviorism

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Learning is any relative permanent/durable change in behavior that is brought about by experience or practice. Four ways people learn: classical conditioning behaviorism, operant condition, cognitive learning theory, observational learning. In classical conditioning, learning occurs by the association between events in our environment. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Stimulus- any event that causes a response ( reaction to it) Reflex- an unlearned, involuntary response to a stimulus. Russian physiologist, ivan pavlov who accidently demonstrated classical conditioning. His work became seminal for later behaviorists like john watson and b. f. skinner. Classical condition- learning to elicit an involuntary (or reflex) response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response. Unconditional stimulus (us)- a stimulus that automatically/ naturally triggers a response, (no learning) Unconditioned response (ur)- an unlearned naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus (reflex) Neutral stimulus (ns) a stimulus that before conditioning (or learning) does not naturally bring about a response.