PSYC 1000 Chapter 6: Readings for Quiz 6

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

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Module 6. 1 classical conditioning: learning by association. Learning, a process by which behavior or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Pavlov"s dogs: classical conditioning of salivation: pavlov studied digestion, using dogs as model species for his experiments, he noticed that as they prepared dogs for procedures, even before any meat powder was presented, the dogs would start salivating. Classical conditoning, learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. In pavlov"s experiments, the neutral stimulus was the sound of the tone, which was paired with meat powder that could by itself elicit salivation. Pavlov"s conditioning influences many other responses as well and occurs in a variety of settings. Pavlov"s work inspired thousands of future studies and served as one of the foundations of behaviorism. Unconditioned stimulus (us), is a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Unconditioned response (ur), is a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus.