PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

A relatively permanent change in behavior or the potential to make a response that occurs as a result of experience. It is an adaptive behavior that supports natural selection: classic conditioning, operant (or instrumental) conditioning, observational learning. Has become so closely associated with russian scientist ian pavlov (1849-1936) that is is often called pavolivan conditioning. This pairing eventually causes the participant to establish an association between the two events: the cs comes to predict or signal the occurrence of the. What is important about classic conditioning is that organisms learn to respond not not to the original ucs, but also to other css that becomes associated with our reflexes. Acquisition is the training stage during which a particular response (e. g. salivating or blinking) is learned (occurs after cs is presented) Several factors influence the acquisition of crs: sequence of cs-ucs presentation. The optimum sequence is for the cs to precede the ucs (by about 0. 5s) forward conditioning.