PSYC 2000 Chapter Notes -Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning
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Behaviorism- all your learned responses make up who and what you are. Learning- a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. Classical conditioning- you learn to associate two things with each other. Operant conditioning- you learn to associate behavior with consequences. Observational learning- learning from what another organism experiences through their environment. Habituation- the more you are exposed to a stimulus the less you respond to it. Sets up an experiment to test digestion in dogs. Problem: dog starts salivating before the food was ever brought (confound). He ends up creating the first official classical conditioning experiment. Classical conditioning looks at: associative learning- pairing things together. Unconditioned stimulus- (us) or (usc)- naturally occurring stimulus in the environment creates an unconditioned response- (ur) or (ucr)- a naturally occurring response to the natural stimuli. Neutral stimulus (ns)- is not associated with anything. Ex: pavlov- (us) is the food. (ur) is the salivation. (ns) is the tone.
