PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: B. F. Skinner, Habituation, Operant Conditioning Chamber

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

Document Summary

Genetics can help explain some behaviours, but we still have more explaining to do. This lecture is about writing on a (mostly) blank slate: and equipping ourselves with what we need to survive as adults. Learning: a more-or-permanent change in behavior or behavioural potential that results from experience. What do we learn: stimulus other stimulus. Classical conditioning (ie. when you hear a potato chip bag, it is usually follow by someone eating potato chips, you may begin to salivate from the crinkling: behaviours outcomes. Operant conditioning (ie. using a vending machine) Contingency? (of a patient waking from a coma: eyes open, blinks a lot, and blinks after name is spoken, smiled after you mention the name of her husband. Classical conditioning (ivan pavlov: paradigm: a pre-programming process. Neutral stimulus & unconditioned stimulus & response. Bell salivation (without food: higher-order paradigm. Insert light into the chain, to switch from without a bell, to a light causing salivation: conditioned taste aversion.