PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Sexual Fetishism, Drug Tolerance, Neuroimaging
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Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience: cognitive learning: learning through reading, listening, and test taking in order to acquire new information, associative learning: learning through stimuli. Ex (pavlov"s dog): neutral stimulus = sound; sound was paired with meat powder that elicits salivation. One of the foundations of behaviourism: line of inquiry focused on observable behaviours rather than unobservable mental events: stimulus: an external event/cue that elicits a response (ex: food, water, pain, sexual contact) Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Can elicit a response in the absence of any learning (hence unconditioned) Unconditioned response (ur): a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus (ex: flinching, blinking) Link between us & ur is that it"s unlearned; everything happens naturally. Conditioned stimulus (cs): once-neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
