PSY 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Habituation- the sensory process by which organisms adapt to constant stimulation. Learning- an enduring change in behavior that occurs with experience: learning occurs when information moves from short-term to long-term memory. Association- one piece of information from the environment is linked repeatedly with another and the organism begins to connect the two sources of information: form simply as a result of two events occurring together. Reasoned that the dogs had formed an association between a stimulus that had no inherent food value. Presented a neutral stimulus (bell sound) just before showing the dogs the meat powder. Dogs salivated to the meat powder, and then to the bell alone because it was associated with the meat powder. Neutral stimulus or cs is the product, ad actors are the ucs, and the fun is the ucr or cr. Unconditioned response (ucr)- an automatic, inborn response to a stimulus salivation.
