PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
17 Feb 2017
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Relatively permanent change in an organism behavior due to experience. Is the process whereby an organism learns to associate stimuli and thus anticipate events. Nobel prize 1904 (not for psychology: unconditional stimulus (us) Stimulus that elicits a particular response (reflex, involuntary reactions) without the necessity of learning: unconditional response (ur) Response that occurs to a stimulus without the necessity of learning (involuntary/automatic: conditional stimulus (cs) Stimulus that does not elicit a particular response initially but come to do so as a result of becoming associated with a us: conditional response (cr) Response that come to be made to the cs as a result of classical conditioning: 5 major conditioning processes: Spontaneous recovery if the cs is presented again to the subject after a period of rest the cr appears. Generalization tendency to respond to stimuli resembling the cs. Discrimination responding occurs in the presence of one stimulus but not in the presence of another.
