PSY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Classical Conditioning, Sensory Cue, Learning
14 Dec 2017
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Learning: change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of practice, study, or experience. Non-associative learning: learning that does not involve forming associations between stimuli; it is change resulting from experiences with a single sensory cue. Habituation: weakening of response to a stimulus after repeated presentation. Sensitization: a strong stimulus results in an exaggerated response to the subsequent presentation of weaker stimuli. Dishabituation: a recovery of attention to a novel stimulus following habitation. Associative learning: a change as a result of experience where two or more stimuli become linked. Learning via association: large amounts of learning occur though association. Simple associations provided the mental building blocks for more complex ideas. Example: convenience store - able to pick something you like because its something you"ve done multiple times before, so it becomes a habit. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist and 1904 nobel prize winner. Most famous for work on digestion of the dog.
