01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Habituation

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Foels

Document Summary

Learning - a lasting change in behavior or mental process that results from experience. Stimulus - a thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction. Habituation - process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli (reduced response to repeated stimulation) - learn to ignore it neutral stimulus - any stimulus that produces no conditioned response prior to learning. When it is brought into a conditioning experiment, the researcher will call it a a conditioned stimulus (cs). The assumption is that some conditioning occurs after even one pairing of the cs and. Ucs unconditioned stimulus - stimulus that elicits an automatic response without prior conditioning. Ex. the meat powder in dog experiment. conditioned stimulus - initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with an unconditioned stimulus. Acquisition - learning phase during which a conditioned response (or operant response) is established (both in classical conditioning and operant conditioning)