PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Recap (Software), Intersubjectivity, Little Albert Experiment
1 Jun 2016
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Learning: any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Superstitious behaviour (reward after certain behaviour, operant learning) Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations (classical conditioning) Lasting changes in behaviour are basically always product of learning (personality, basic abilities, emotions) Not exclusively human: the principles that explain learned responses in animals explain much of human learning. Conditioning: learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Nobel prize winning russian physiologist who studied digestion. Very involved from shift of research from introspection to scientific approach. Stimulus in external world controls behaviour (behavioural psychologist, not interested in mind), learning under control of experience, associations built up in consciousness. Studied role of saliva in the digestive process of dogs (was collecting it in tubes), stumbled upon discovery he called psychic reflexes .
