PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavioral potential) due to experience. Behaviorism emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the role of the environment as a determinant of behavior. Learning not to respond to an unimportant event that occurs repeatedly. The process by which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. A stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. An initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus. A reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning.