PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Drug Tolerance, Operant Conditioning
18 Oct 2016
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Learning - is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience - behaviours are products of experience. Conditioning - involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning/pavlovian conditioning - is a type of learning which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by an other stimulus. Learned associations were formed by events in an organism"s environment. His experiment worked with the the salivary glands of dogs. If a tone was played just before the stimulus was food was presented, the dog would eventually learn that the tone meant food, and the salivary glands would be activated before the food even was presented. Unconditional stimulus (ucs): is a stimulus that evokes an unconditional response without previous conditioning. Unconditional response (ucr: is an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.
