PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning, Psych, Classical Conditioning
19 Sep 2020
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Evolution: the changes in behaviour that accumulates across generations are stored in the genes. Learning: the changes in behavior that accumulate over a lifetime are stored i the central nervous system. You will continue to learn new facts and skills across your lifetime. Learning is inherently relevant to being human. You need to learn new facts and skills to earn a degree/future careers. If you have children or pets you need to foster their learning as well. Cats learn to expect food at the sound of can opener. Dogs learn the leas means a walk. Child learns to fear the nurse that gives needles. Learning occurs when you see one event predicts another. Before conditioning food (unconditioned stimulus, us) produces saliva (unconditioned response, ur) During conditioning the neural stimulus (tone) and the us (food) are paired = salivation. After conditioning the neutral stimulus (now conditioned stimulus, cs) elicits salivation (now conditioned response, cr)
