PSYC 181 Lecture 6: Psych chapter 6 Learning and adaption
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Learning any source of experience that changes behavior. Knowing how to do something: performance doing something. Psychology should only focus on the observable behavior of the organism: focus on performance, assumed everyone was born a blank slate. Focused on how people(cid:859)s experiences influences their behavior: also assumed there are universal laws of learning. If we reward behavior it will be done more often, punishment it wont. Gradual decline in sensitivity to a stimulus over prolonged stimulus sensory neurons stop firing. Increase in respond to a repeated stimulus: helps us avoid things that could potentially hurt us. When we link 2 things in our mind, one produced a response that was initially produced only by the other stimulus: response: behavior, mood, physiological response. One of the most basic forms of learning. Using a different tuning fork; close to what they learn. Discrimination telling the difference between 2 things. Tone that is not the same or close at all.
