PSYC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Observational Learning
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience. People and animals notice novelty, ignore else to conserve mental functioning resources. Orienting response: inborn tendency to nice/respond to surprising events (sounds) Habituation: decline in tendency to respond to event once it becomes familiar through repeated exposure. Variety in foods eat more because no habituation with different tastes. Exposure repeatedly to loud nose likely to become sensitive to noise. Happens if stimulus is intense or punishing. Def: learning through association, relation between events. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that automatically lead to observable response. Unconditioned response (ur): response that follows us, automatic, no training prior. Conditioned response (cr): same response^; produced by cs in anticipation of the unconditioned stimulus. *cognitive view of classical conditioning: conditioned response form does not just shift" into the conditioned stimulus from the us. signal, freeze instead of jumping back from the shock as expected.
