PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Aversion Therapy, Substance Abuse
30 Mar 2017
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Learning: relatively permanent change in an organism"s behaviour due to experience. Classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning): respond to a previously neutral stimulus that has been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Behaviorism: john b. watson, viewed psychology as an objective science. Generally agreed-upon consensus today: recommended study of behaviour without reference to unobservable mental processes. Not universally accepted by all schools of thought today. Association how our mind learns: our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence, associative learning: learning that two events occur together. Ex: dog associates the leash with the fun of going outside: start to have a response to just the first stimuli. He used a variety of stimuli: the dog does not need to do anything to receive food. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that elicits a particular response without the necessity of prior training (ex: food)
