PSYC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Behavioralism
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De nition: process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior. Habituation simplest form of learning, no new behavior is learned what is learned is to reduce response to a stimulus. [innate reduction to behaviors as opposed to new behaviors being developed] [learn that a particular loud noise not harmful, so stop reacting to it] Pavlov work in digestion go him a nobel prize in 1904. Period in which association is learned tone, neutral stimulus (ns) food, unconditioned stimulus (ucs) salivation, unconditioned response (ucr) tone means nothing, food is the unconditioned stimulus unconditioned means you didnt teach the dog to do it. Phobias phobias are learned classical conditioning beauty of it is that can be removed by classical conditioning. Generalization and discrimination child came to fear anything furry for example, showed a santa mask and cried child [had developed generalization for anything furry] *child had learned to generalize but did he learn to discriminate? xx.
