PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Habituation
3 Oct 2016
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Learning change in an organism"s behavior or thought as a result of experience: rapidly occurs in early stages of life. Habituation process by which we respond less strongly over time to repeated stimuli: learning to ignore a repeated noise that has scared you. Sensitization process by which we respond more strongly over time (especially for irritating stimuli: arm rubbing. British associations: we acquire knowledge by connecting stimuli, simple associations the building blocks to more complex ideas. Ivan pavlov: studied digestion in dogs, noted associative conditioning between neutral stimuli and meat powder (pavloviah conditioning) Dogs started to salivate before getting the food. By virtue of cs ucs pairing, the cs comes to elicit to the cr, a response closely related, but not identical, to the ur. Acquisition learning phase during which a cr is established. Extinction gradual decrease and elimination of the cr when the cs is presented repeatedly without the ucs.
