PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Digestion, Classical Conditioning, Edward Thorndike
27 Apr 2016
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Learning: relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Habitation: process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Association: we learn by association, our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence, associative learning learning that two events occur together two stimuli a response and its consequences. John b. watson viewed psychology as objective science: generally agreed-upon consensus today recommended study of behavior without reference to unobservable mental processes not universally accepted by all schools of thought today. Classic conditioning: form in learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. 1849-1936: russian physician/ neurophysiologist, nobel prize in 1904 with digestive secretions, studied digestive secretions, primary research interest was in dogs, we learn to associate two stimuli. Neutral stimulus + ucs = ucr -> cs (tone) = cr salivation. Four major terms used in classical conditioning experiments.
