PSYC 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blood Sugar, Operant Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment
16 Jan 2017
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior, knowledge, capability or attitude that is acquired through experience and cannot be attributed to illness, injury or maturation. Classical conditioning: a type of learning through which an organism learns to associate on stimulus with another. Sometimes referred to as pavlonian conditioning or respondent conditioning. A stimulus is any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds. Pavlov and the process of classical conditioning: pavlov (1927/1960) Used tones, bells, buzzers, lights, geometric shapes, electric shocks, and metronomes in his conditioning experiments. Food powder was placed in the dogs mouth, causing salvation. Because dogs do not need to be conditioned to salivate to food, salvation to the food is an unlearned response, or unconditioned response (ur) Any stimulus, such as food, that without prior learning will automatically elicit or bring forth and unconditional response is an unconditioned stimulus (us)
