PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operant Conditioning, Corporal Punishment
13 Nov 2017
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Learning - any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning - learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning/pavlovian conditioning - type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Presented dogs with meat powder and observed the fact that they salivated. Presented the meat powder with a neutral tone a number of times. Presented the tone alone, the dogs would salivate to it even without meat powder present. Conditioning has taken place, as dogs would not salivate to the tone before it became associated with the meat powder. Unconditioned stimulus - stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response - an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus - a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
