PSY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Reinforcement

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Many different kinds, most basic are habituation and sensitization. Responding to stimuli less or more over time. Simple associations provided the mental building blocks for more complex ideas. Most famous for work on digestion of the dog. Fist work on classical conditioning: a form of learning in which the conditioned stimulus comes to signal the occurrence of a second stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (the actual thing that response. The learning phase during where a conditioned response is established. Works best when the cs and ucs are paired closely in time. The reduction and elimination of the conditioned response. Happens after the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus.