PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Habituation, Operant Conditioning, Contiguity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Classical conditioning allows an organism to exhibit natural and re exive behaviours in response to arbitrary stimuli that wouldn"t naturally or automatically elicit those behaviours. This stimulus elicits a behaviour prior to any learning. In his experiments, this was the food] produces an unconditioned response [(ucr) the re exive response to the presentation of the unconditioned stimulus. Acquisition: delay conditioning (most effective way): onset of the cs comes before the onset of the. Presenting the cs, taking it away, then presenting the ucs. Discrimination training: training the animal or subject to respond selectively to only one stimulus and not others that are similar. Habituation and adaptation: habituation is one of the simplest forms of learning which involves diminished response to a stimulus after repeated exposure. Contiguity: this is a continuous series of frequent pairings classical condition requires that the cs and. Ucs occur close together in time aka contiguity.