PSYC 2000 Chapter : Learning February 15
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Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Classical conditioning: learning to make a reflex (involuntary) response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist, studied dogs, dogs would start to salivate when an experimenter opened a door to their. John b. watson room to feed them: first studied classical conditioning in humans, popularized and promoted it in psychology, creating behaviorism. Key concepts: unconditioned stimulus (ucs) naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary response ex. Pavlov"s experiment: food is an ucs, food naturally makes dogs salivate: unconditioned response (ucr) an involuntary response to a naturally occurring or unconditioned stimulus ex. This is a stimulus that does not produce a response: conditioned response (cr) learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus. ex. Cr, salivating when hearing an ice cream truck. Example: car crash results in higher heart rate.
