Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Tabula Rasa, Behaviorism, Observational Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

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Adapting to the environment: no matter the challenge, learning makes it possible for us to adapt to it, we can view learning as a process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Habituation and sensitization: habituation is a decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus. Classical conditioning: associating one stimulus with another: classical conditioning, in which an organism learns to associate two stimuli (ex. A reflexive, unlearned response to an innately important stimulus. A response elicited by a stimulus whose importance depends on past learning. Feeling hungry when you see your favourite restaurant. Cr: pavlov also found that a a stimulus becomes a cs after only one pairing with an intense. Ucs: the sequence and time interval of the cs-ucs pairing also affect conditioning, learning usually occurs most quickly with forward short-delay pairing, the cs appears first (tone) and is still present when the ucs (food) appears.