SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
12 Mar 2018
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Learning: processing of acquiring new information through experience: associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. Cognitive learning: acquisition of mental info, by observing events, watching others. Behaviourism & associative learning: objective science that studies behaviour w/out reference to mental processes, study how organisms responds to stimuli in the environment. Types of associative learning: classical conditioning, learning one stimulus predicts another stimulus, operant conditioning, learning that behaviours have consequences. A biological response to the stimulus: noticed salivation before the food arrived. Dogs learned to predict the food was coming: classical conditioning. A type of learning where one learns to link 2+ stimuli and anticipate events. Neutral stimulus (ns: a stimulus that elicits no response before, pair the tone with food (pair 2 stimuli) salivation and learned response, conditioned response (cr) Originally irrelevant stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response due to association. Creating a conditioned response: classical conditioning relies on respondent behaviour: Behaviour that occurs as an automatic response.
