PSYC 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Latent Learning, Autonomic Nervous System, The Delay

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Penelope Kostopoulos

Document Summary

Learning: change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Three famous figures in the psychology of learning: pavlov, watson and skinner. Habituation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Simplest and probably earliest form of learning to emerge in human. Eric kandel uncovered the biological mechanism of habituation in aplysia, a long sea slug. Sensitization is most likely when the stimulus in dangerous, irritating or both. If we never learned to connect one stimulus with another one, our world would be what william james called a. Blooming, buzzing confusion a world of disconnected sensory experiences. Ivan pavlov"s primary research was on digestion in dogs. The dogs were salivating to the sound of the assistant"s footstep (for food meat powder). The dogs seemed to be anticipating the meat powder and responding to stimuli that signalled its arrival. We call this process of association classical conditioning (or pavlovian conditioning).