PSY 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Classical Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment, Radical Behaviorism
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience. Behaviourism: an approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment as a determinant of behaviour. Conditioning: a basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism"s responses. Ivan pavlov conducted an experiment on dogs in which he would measure the saliva secreted when food was placed in the dog"s mouth. One of his assistants noticed that the dog would salivate before the food was placed in the mouth. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. Us: an event or thing that elicits a response automatically or reflexively. Unconditioned response (ur): reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning. Learning occurs when a neutral stimulus is regularly paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
