[01:830:101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (91 pages long!)

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Professor Marvasti

Document Summary

These type of psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. Learning: a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning). Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Behaviorism: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Unconditioned response (ur: in classical conditioning, the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (us), such as salivation when food is in the mouth. Unconditioned stimulus (us: in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response. Conditioned response (cr: in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (cs).