PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

While genetics plays a role in behaviour, some things are learned through experiences and cannot be predicted through genetic inheritance. We must learn to adapt to our individual worlds - behaviours learned depend on the environment. A more-or-less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Behaviours and outcomes result in operant conditioning. Learning = empiricism - knowledge through sensory observation (a change in behaviour that results from experience) Behaviourist view of learning: learners retain behaviours through reinforcements. Cognitive view: learner initiate, acquire, remember and use knowledge (active learning) A form of learning in which an animal learns an association between two stimuli. When you establish an association between a stimulus (often benign) and a response (often a natural, biological response) (when _____ happens, _____ response happens automatically) Ivan pavlov - contributions to conditioning and learning (famous pavlov"s dog experiment)