PSYCH 101 Lecture 22: Lectures 22-25

• School: UW
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 101
• Professor: Voorhies

Document Summary

Learning: change in behavior or mental processes due to experience, learning is flexible, allows us to adapt to our environment, based on associations connections between events that occur together, classical conditioning connects two stimuli, operant conditioning connects a behavior and consequence, observational learning connects behaviors of others with consequences. By repeatedly pairing the neutral stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus (which leads to an unconditioned response), you get classical conditioning/learning: we know that the neutral stimulus has been conditioned when: the conditioned stimulus now elicits a response in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus, acquisition, maximized by: / unconditioned stim. pairing: extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, similar stimuli elicit the same response, stimulus discrimination, ability to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant stimuli. Punishment: not simply the opposite of reinforcement, in most cases, reinforcement works more effectively, not as clean cut or straight forward as reinforcement, creates several unwanted side effects, suppresses all behaviors, creates fear, teaches/increases aggression and cruelty.