PSYC 101 Midterm: Learning
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What is learning: a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. How do we learn: we learn through association, we connect events that occur in sequence. Associative learning: past becomes associated with immediate future, e. g. , event 1 (bad food) is associated with event 2 (feeling sick, process of learning associations: conditioning. Types of conditioning: classical conditioning: process of associating two stimuli (e. g, thunder -> lightening, operant conditioning: process of associating a response & its consequence (e. g. , pulling arm of candy machine -> getting candy bar) Types of learning: classical, operant, observational, first two types studied traditionally behaviorists, e. g. , watson"s forget the mind psychology should based on observable behavior, observational learning can not be easily explained by strictly behaviorist viewpoint, classical conditioning. First experimental study of classical conditioning: neutral stimulus: tone, unconditioned stimulus (ucs): meat, unconditioned response (ucr): salivation, pair neutral stimulus with ucs, neutral stimulus paired with ucs, neutral stimulus becomes conditioned stimulus (cs)
