PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-8: Classical Conditioning, Habituation
23 Aug 2018
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Midterm 4 readings notes: learning and motivation (ch. Learning involves acquisition of new knowledge/skills/responses from experience resulting in relatively permanent change in learner"s state: emphasizes 3 key ideas: Learning through classical conditioning req. some period of association b/w cs + us (aka. After # of training trials, dogs produced salivary response to black square even though not ever directly associated w/ food: explains why people desire money to the point of valuing it more than objects it purchases. The more the new stimulus changes, the less conditioned responding observed: discrimination capacity to distinguish b/w similar but distinct stimuli, case of little albert:
