PSYC 2000 : PSYC Exam 2
Document Summary
Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Classical conditioning occurs by association between events in our environment. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. In other words, when one event precedes another we learn to associate one event with the other. Even simple animals can learn through simple associations. Russian physiologist ivan pavlov who accidentally demonstrated classical conditioning. His work became seminal for later behaviorists like john watson and b. f. skinner. Initial stage in classical conditioning during which association between a neutral stimulus and a us takes place. Neutral stimulus (ns) needs to come before the (1) unconditioned stimulus (us) for conditioning to occur. The time between the two stimuli should be about half a. The ns must be paired with us several times for it to become (2) second (3) a cs.
