PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Corporal Punishment, Reinforcement
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Learning the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. As we repeat behaviors in a given context, the behaviors become associated with the contexts. On average, behaviors become habitual after about 66 days. Associative learning learning that certain events occur together; events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Classical conditioning a type of learning in which one learns to link or more stimuli and anticipate events. Behaviorism the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes; most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2) Most researchers now agree that classical conditioning is a basic form of learning by which all organisms adapt to their environment. Neutral stimuli (ns) in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
