PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning
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Learning: a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behavior or capabilities (highlights a distinction made by many theorists: knowing how learning versus doing performance) Classical conditioning: occurs when two stimuli become associated with each other (seeing dog triggers fear when you saw it and was bitten) Operant conditioning: learn to associate our responses with specific consequences. Learning considers observational learning and consider the role of cognition in conditioning. Behaviorists explain learning solely in terms of directly observable events and avoided speculating about an organism"s unobservable mental state . Cognitive and biological factors play important roles. Cross-cultural psychology: highlights the important impact that culture has on what we learn from social customs and beliefs, to our most basic perceptions of the world and ourselves. Habituation: a decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus.
