PSY 12000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mirror Neuron, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
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Learning: the ability to adjust actions because of past experiences; define by behavior/change in potential behavior resulting from experience (behavior changes with environment so we can act more sensibly in the future. 7-1 learning about events: noticing and ignoring. Something new/different causes orienting response (orient towards a new sensation) Habituation: slowed or stopped response to event (ignore repetitive things); has a role in eating (habituating to tastes of food until a new taste comes along) Sensitization: response to event increases rather than decreases with repeated exposure (ex: loud music) more likely with intense/punishing stimuli. 7-2 learning what events signal: classical conditioning. Classical conditioning: learning relations between events occurring outside of control. Pavlov developed it to show how associations formed; dog"s digestion & salivation with stimulus of food, found they would drool prematurely without full stimulus (psychic secretion) Psychic secretions develop as result of experience and not learned responses; unconditioned stimulus (automatically leads to response (ur)) no learning conditions required.
