PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mood Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Confirmation Bias

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Prof G

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Associative learning - learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in. Learning - the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Stimulus - any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning - the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. Classical conditioning - a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Operant conditioning - change behaviour choices in response to consequences. Cognitive learning - learning new behaviours by observing events and by watching others and through language we learn things we have neither experienced nor observed. Behaviourism - the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behaviour without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists agree with (1) but not (2)