PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning
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Learning: involved the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Learning: learning is based on experience, learning produces changes in the organism, these changes are relatively permanent. Learning can also occur in much simpler, nonassociative forms. Sensitization: presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus: people whose houses have been broken into may later become hypersensitive to late-night sounds that wouldn"t have bothered them previously. American psychologist john b. watson kick-started the behaviorist movement: argued that psychologists shout not use the terms consciousness, mental states, mind, content, introspectively verifiable, imagery, and the like. When the dogs were initially presented with a plate of food, they began to salivate. Pavlov called the presentation of food an unconditioned stimulus (us: something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism.
