PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dishabituation, Neural Adaptation, Habituation

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 6
• Professor: cassens

Document Summary

Learning results from experience learning- relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Benefits from experience-> better adapted to environment learning theory developed from individuals dissatisfied with introspection. John b. watson rejected freudian theory, claiming unscientific and meaningless. Observable behavior only valid indicator of psychological. Based on belief that humans and nonhuman animals have potential to learn anything. Environment and associated effects were determinants of learning. Nonassociative- response to something in environment learning about a stimulus, such as sight or sound, in the external world. Associative- understanding how stimuli, or events, are related. Associative learning- linking of two events that take place one right after the other. Conditioning- develop through conditioning, process in which environmental stimuli and behavioral responses become connected. Acquiring or changing a behavior after exposure to another. Describe the nonassociative learning processes: individual performing. Habituation- decrease in behavioral response after repeated exposure to stimulus. Neither rewarding nor harmful-> ignore through habituation.