PS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Vending Machine, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Little Albert Experiment
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Learning refers to a relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Much research on learning conducted on animals because researchers can exert greater control over animal subjects than human subjects. Conditioning involves learning associations between events that occur in an organisms environment. Phobias are irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Ivan pavlov was a prominent russian physiologist who did nobel prize winning research on digestion. Studying the role of saliva in the digestive processes of dogs when he stumbled onto what he called psychic reflexes . As his research progressed, he noticed that dogs accustomed to the procedure would start salivating before the meat power was presented. They would salivate in response to a clicking sound made by the device that was used to present the meat powder.
