PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Latent Inhibition
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Learning: a change in an organisms behavior or thought as a result of experience. Habituation: process by which we respond less strongly over time to repeated stimuli, simplest & probs earliest form of learning to emerge in humans. Weak stimuli stop producing anxiety fairly quickly compared with strong stimuli. Sensitization: responding more strongly over time; more likely when a stimulus is dangerous and irritating. Without classical conditioning we couldn"t develop physiological associations to. Latent inhibition: when we"ve experienced a cs alone many times, it"s difficult to classically condition it to another stimulus stimuli that signal biologically important events. Used in advertising, acquisition of fears/ fetishes, disgust reactions. Operant conditioning: learning controlled by the consequences of the organism"s behavior. Insight: learning by grasping the underlying nature of the problem: thorndike found cats time to escape decreased gradually through buildup of. Skinner box: small animal chamber allowing sustained periods of conditioning to be administered and behaviors to be recorded unsupervised.
