PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Microsoft Onenote, Guard Dog, Child Abuse

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

Document Summary

We are able to adapt to our environments because we are able to learn. Learning: process of acquiring new/relatively enduring information or behaviours. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together, allows us to predict the immediate future. Both events are two stimuli = classical conditioning. A response and its consequence = operant conditioning. Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information (guides our behaviour) Classical conditioning: type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Respondent behaviour: behaviour that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus (us) Food in the mouth of a dog naturally, unconditionally, triggers its salivary reflex. Stimulus that unconditionally (naturally & automatically) triggers a response (ur) Learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (cs)