PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Psychopathy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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Learning is a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience; cognitive learning, associative learning. Collected saliva and other gastric secretions from dogs when thy were presented with meat powder. Noticed that dogs would start salivating before presented with meat powder. Began conducting experiments, first presented sound from a metronome, device that produces ticking sounds at set intervals, then presented meat powder to the dogs. Discovered that metronome by itself could elicit salivation. Classical conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. Pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k se(cid:396)(cid:448)ed as of of the fou(cid:374)datio(cid:374)s of behaviourism. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Stimulus is an external event/cue that elicits a response (food) Unconditioned response (ur): reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs): once-neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response. I(cid:374) pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)i(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:373)eat po(cid:449)de(cid:396) eli(cid:272)ited u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ed sali(cid:448)atio(cid:374) in his dogs.