PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fokker E.Ii, Habituation, Biofeedback

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Rod Gillis

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Habituation: eventually you wil stop responding to a stimulus, become used to it. Sensitization- opposite, developing a stronger reaction to a stimulus over time: phobias are sensitizations of a greater magnitude. Classic conditioning- pavlovian conditioning- associative learning: pavlov was studying digestion, conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus are associated. Operant conditioning- instrumental conditioning- skinnerian conditioning: rewarding/punishing good/bad behavior, pigeon learns to press the lever to get the food, must engage in an operation for it to be operant . Observational learning- social learning- imitative learning modeling; albert bandura: most of the things we learn are form watching other people do them. Insight learning (kohler"s apes: learning by thinking, aha moment, monkey couldn"t reach suspended fruit with any of the sticks, but eventually realized he could connect the sticks make a longer stick. Taste (flavor) aversion: when you eat something and got sick/had a bad experience, you will not want to eat that food again. Ivan pavlov: ucs leads to ucr a. i.