PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Tuning Fork, Little Albert Experiment

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Robert Thunhurst

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permeant change in knowledge or behavior arising from experience. *every species tested have been capable of learning: learning allows us to adapt, learning allows us to prepare. Learning (conditioning): two major kinds: classical (pavlov, operant/instrumental (skinner) Ivan pavlov-classical conditioning: took place in russia, the (cid:862)to(cid:449)er of ilence(cid:863) (cid:449)as (cid:449)here pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448) did his studies (cid:449)ith dogs, monument to a dog. Conditioned stimulus > conditioned response (cs) (cr) Present cs without us and the cr dies out. Tone without meat=no more salivation: spontaneous recovery. After period of time, new presentation of cs elicits cr. *means extinction is not forgetting, but learning no to respond: stimulus generalization. Cr elicited by stimuli similar to original cs: stimulus discrimination. Learn not to respond to stimuli similar to original. Cs that do not predict the us: sensory preconditioning and higher order conditioning. Learn cr to cs never paired with us! Pavlov- temporal contiguity of cs and us is essential for learning.