PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Facilitation, Seat Belt, Contiguity

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Dasom Lee

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What is learning: learning a relatively permanent change in behavior or the capacity for behavior due to experience (something that happened to us, experience. Instincts- inborn patterns of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli: o(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es (cid:396)efe(cid:396)(cid:396)ed to as (cid:862)fi(cid:454)ed a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) patte(cid:396)(cid:374)s(cid:863, once initiated, they run into completion, more complex than reflexes, ex. Motherly instinct, survival instinct (adrenaline goes up: how much do they influence us, lots of competing instincts, ex. Women"s (cid:373)othe(cid:396)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)(cid:272)t is i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)petitio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al i(cid:374)sti(cid:374)(cid:272)t. Which one wins depends on the person: largely unaware of them. Associative learning: associative learning - involves the forming of associations or connections among stimuli and behavior. If a happens, then b is likely to follow. If stimuli x happens, then behavior y will happen: stimulus: anything that elicits a response, ex. Seeing spider (x: response: behavior that occurs in the presence of a stimulus, ex.