PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning, Latent Inhibition, Reinforcement

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: William Huggon

Document Summary

Change is an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of practice, study or experience. Non associative learning - learning that does not involve forming associations between stimuli; change resulting from experiences with a single sensory cue. Associative learning - a change as a result of experience where two or more stimuli become linked together. Habituation - weakening of response to a stimulus after repeated presentation. Sensitization - a strong stimulus results in an exaggerated responses to the subsequent presentation of weaker stimuli. Larger amounts of learning occur through association. Simple associations provided the mental building blocks for more complex. Russian physiologist and 1904 nobel prize winner. Most famous for work on digestion of the dog. A form of learning in which the conditioned stimulus comes to signal the occurrence of a second stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus. Meutral stimulus: does not elicit a particular response.