PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Map, Normative Social Influence, Traffic Ticket

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Christine Logel

Document Summary

Learning: process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information for behaviors. Behaviourism: reaction to psychodynamic theory, based on unseen forces and untestable. Locke, hume, aristotle: we learn by association. Cognitive learning: acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others/through language. Type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Behaviourism: view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behaviour. Extinction and spontaneous recovery extinction: diminishing of a conditioned response. When tone sounded again and again, but no food came, response becomes weaker spontaneous recovery: the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response extinction may be suppressing the conditioned response rather than eliminating it. Discrimination the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus being able to recognize differences is adaptive.