PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Lightning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Module 21: basic learning concepts and classical conditioning. Learning is a process of acquiring new information or behaviours. Allows us to adapt to our environments and allows for us to prepare to expect some behaviours while avoid others. Our minds connect events that occur in sequences and that becomes into an association. For example: smelling and seeing fresh bread and eating it causing you to have a satisfying feeling when you see and smell that bread another time. We also learn through repeating behaviours such as eating popcorn at the theatre turns into an association when the event is repeated. Animals also associate things and learn from it. For example if you squirt water at a fish it with withdraw its gill to protect itself. If you constantly squirt water at it , the response will diminish. But if you squirt water and then shock the fish, its response will grow stronger.