PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Contiguity

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Rahhal Tamara

Document Summary

Any relatively permanent change in behavior produced by experience. Associative learning: a process in which you form associations between stimuli and other events, by forming associations, we acquire new information and meaning and we behave differently. The unconditioned re ex: dog is hungry, dog sees food, dog salivates. Salivation (ucr: unconditioned stimulus ucs: (food, unconditioned response ucr: (salivating) Innate and unlearned: permanent (usually, all members of the species have it, does not vary from individual to individual. The conditioned re ex: dog is hungry, dog hears bell, dog sees food, dog salivates. Salivation (cr: conditioned stimulus cs: (bell) some aspect of the environment that we learn to respond to because it has been associated with an us (food, conditioned response cr: (salivating) the response reliably evoked (learned) by the cs. Impermanent (usually: not present at birth, instead learned, not all members of the species have it, varies from individual to individual.