L33 Psych 100B Lecture 15: TA Notes L15
6 Feb 2019
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Learning: a relatively enduring change in behavior that arises from experience: key components, relatively-enduring (do not just exhibit behavior once, experience (change in your behavior that comes as a result of experience, behaviorist"s perspective, stimulus response. Types of learning classical conditioning: classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events, ex. Playing jaws theme song leads to a nervous/anxious feeling because we associated that song with jaws and sharks: ex. 53-year old woman"s letter to newspaper regarding discontinuation of. Beeman"s gum: woman associated the memory of an ex love with the smell of beeman"s gum and cigarettes, unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response. In the gum example, gum and cigarette smells are the neutral stimulus as they did not elicit a response until, she was conditioned to associate it with her ex love.
