PSY B110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Functional Fixedness, Hindsight Bias, Working Memory
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Change - to control behavior and mental processes. Experience process of encountering, observing, or undergoing something. Learning - relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Associative learning when experiences cause us to link things in the environment together. Classical conditioning learning to associate a meaningless stimulus with a meaningful stimulus that is important to us because of its. Signal - anything that provides information that predicts what will happen next. Temporal contiguity - when things are closely linked together in time. Acquisition - when an organism first learns the association between a stimulus an a response. Unconditioned stimulus - event (stimulus) that reliably elicits a response (ur) without any prior learning. Unconditioned response - response (usually a physiological one) that reliably elicited by the us. Conditioned stimulus - a previously neutral stimulus that after being paired with the us elicits the cr. Conditioned response - learned response to a previously neutral, now conditioned stimulus.
