PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1: Classical Conditioning, Learning, Behaviorism
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Learning: process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Cognitive learning: learning through reading, listening, taking tests. Associative learning: learning by associating one thing with something else and being conditioned to learn it. Ivan pavlov studied digestion in dogs noticed how salivation of dogs came before food was served when same routine was followed playing metronome before meal time for dogs consistently eventually induced salivation from dogs. Classical conditioning: learning the occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus i(cid:374) pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s exp. , (cid:374)eutral sti(cid:373)ulus (cid:449)as (cid:373)etro(cid:374)o(cid:373)e sou(cid:374)ds, other stimulus was food for dogs that elicited salivation. Served one of the foundations for behaviourism. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that elicits a reflective response without learning (eg. flinching to loud sound) Unconditioned response (ur): a reflective, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus meat powder elicited unconditioned salivation in his dogs link between ur and us is unlearned.
