PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Cognitive Map, Learning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Elizabeth Campbell

Document Summary

Learning is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors: memory is the persistence of learning over time. Classical conditioning: extinction and spontaneous recovery: extinction refers to the diminishing of a conditioned response. If the us stops appearing with the cs, the cr decreases: spontaneous recovery: after a response has been extinguished, following a period of rest, reintroduction of the cs will reactivate the response. Classical conditioning: generalization and discrimination: tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the cs, discrimination: learned ability to distinguish between a cs and other stimuli that do not sign an us. Classical conditioning: higher-order conditioning: higher-order conditioning: a neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus simply by being associated with another conditioned stimulus. Operant conditioning: a response is associated with consequences, behaviors that are followed by a desirable result are strengthened, behaviors that are followed by undesirable results are avoided.