PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ecological Niche, Latent Learning, Albert Bandura

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours: associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. Learning allows humans to adapt to our environment; Learn to expect and prepare for significant events (classical conditioning); learn to repeat acts that brings rewards and to avoid acts that bring unwanted results (operant conditioning) John locke and david hume agreed with aristotle that we all learn by association: brains natural connect events by sequence. Acquisition: acquisition: in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response: higher-order conditioning: a procedure in which the conditioned stimulus in one conditioning experience is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus. Extinction and spontaneous recovery: extinction: the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an.