PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Automatic, Memory Disorder, System Model

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour, knowledge, capability, or attitude that is acquired through experience and cannot be attributed to illness, injury, or maturation. Powerful effect on our attitudes, likes and dislikes, and emotional responses. Stimulus is any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds. Studied the conditioned reflex in dogs: questioned how an involuntary response such as salivation could come to be associated with the sights and sounds accompanying the act of feeding. Is an involuntary response to a particular stimulus; example, eye blink response to a puff of air; or. Salivation in response to food placed in the mouth: made up of both a stimulus and a response. Conditioned reflex: a learned reflex rather than a naturally occurring one. Unconditioned stimulus (us: any stimulus, such as food, that will automatically produce a response without any prior learning. The automatic, unlearned response made to the unconditioned stimulus.