PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organism, Homeostasis, Systematic Desensitization
9 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning describes two methods of learning. Classical conditioning allows us to associate two related events. Instrumental conditioning allows us to associate actions and consequences. Classical conditioning is also called the pavlovian conditioning. Interested in the stages of digestion, which began with salvation in the mouth as food was first ingested. In his experiemnts, the sound of a metronome signaled to a dog that food was about to be delivered, following training, the dog would begin salvating as a response to metronome: behaviour called conditional reflex. Pavlov was studying contingent relationship: the presentation of one stimulus reliably leads to the presentation of another, when organisms learn the association between a signal and an event, a contingent relationship has formed between 2 stimuli. Classical conditioning can be found in many organisms and involves learning the relationship between two events.
