PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Habituation, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Joshua Fedder

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permanent change in an organisms behavior or thought as a result of experience, things your ancestors learned . Some things that humans have "learned" have been acquired from our ancestors. Instincts are patterns of behavior that are elicited by environmental stimuli: reflexes are unlearned, automatic physical responses, mating rituals in nature are an example of this. In humans, nesting behavior before childbirth is another example of an instinct: different types of learning, non-associative learning, habituation, process by which we respond less strongly over time to repeated stimuli.