PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dog Bite, Latent Learning, Mirror Neuron

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: A L L

Document Summary

A relatively permanent behaviour change due to experience. John locke, david hume: we learn by association. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Learned associations also feed our habitual behaviour. Conditioning is the process of learning associations. Classical conditioning, we learn to associate two stimuli thus to anticipate events. Two related events: stimulus 1- lightening + stimulus 2- thunder, result after repetition: stimulus: we see lightening, response: we wince, anticipating thunder. Operant conditioning: we learn to associate a response and its consequence and thus to repeat acts followed by results and avoid acts followed by bad results. ex) response: balancing a ball, consequence: receiving food, behaviour strengthened. We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain (classical). We also learn to repeat acts that bring good results and to avoid acts that bring bad results (operant).