PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Psych, Drug Tolerance
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Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of. Cognitive learning: reading, listening, taking tests to acquire new experience information. Associative learning: associating holidays with specific sights, sounds or with specific flavours or textures. Classical conditioning: (aka pavlovian conditioning) learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus. A dog soon learns that the sound of a metronome means food is coming; before salivating when it sees/smells the food vs after salivating when it hears the sound of a metronome. Important: salivating (after) is less that when salivating (before) Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response. Unconditioned response (ur): a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an without learning unconditioned stimulus. Dog salivating when seeing food (ur) -> dog hearing metronome and seeing food (us) -> dog hearing metronome (cs) -> dog hearing metronome and salivating (cr)
