PSYC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Summary: Guide Dog, Operant Conditioning, Infrared Lamp
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Learning - change in an organisms behavior or thought as a result of experience. Through association: certain events occur together and one predicts the other (classical conditioning). As a result we respond automatically (respondent behavior) Through consequences: association between a response and consequences is learned (operant conditioning) Through acquisition of mental information that guides behavior: cognitive learning. Studied digestive system; first russian nobel prize (1904) Especially interested in role of salivation in digestive process. Dogs automatically salivate when food is put in mouth. Noticed that dogs began to drool even before they were fed. Speculated that it was a learned reflex. In a natural reflex there is an automatic association between a stimulus and a response (food salivation) In a learned reflex, a new association is learned where none existed before. The previously neutral stimulus becomes conditioned (learned) through association with ucs. Start with a neutral stimulus (ns), which does not elicit a particular response.
