Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Educational Psychology, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: hutchinson

Document Summary

Whenever two or more sensations occur together often enough, they will become associated. Later, when one sensation occurs, the other will be remembered as well and is related to classical conditioning: classical conditioning. Focuses on the learning of involuntary emotional or physiological responses such as fear, increased muscle tension, salivation or sweating. Neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that evokes an emotional or physiological response. Eventually, neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus leading to a conditioned response: operant conditioning. We learn to behave in certain ways as we operate on the environment. Behaviours are preceded by antecedents and followed by consequences. Operant behaviour can be altered (learned) by changes in the antecedents, consequences or both. Wednesday, november 1, 2017: reinforcement increases a desired behaviour. Pos. reinforcement increases a behaviour by adding a desired consequence. Neg. reinforcement increases a behaviour by adding an undesired consequence. Punishment: punishment decreases an undesired behaviour.