PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: White Coat, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Learning involves a relatively permanent change in one"s mental processes or behavior that is a function of interactions with the environment. An essential feature necessary for learning acquisition is exposure to an enriched environment; learning and cortical development are optimal when the person is exposed to highly enriched environments. Learning is considered a relatively permanent change in behavior or mental processes. Throughout life you will experience and learn a lot of information, but we cannot retain all that we learn. Retaining information may be the result of the underlying circumstances of when and where learning occurred, the individual"s motivation to learn, and the type of knowledge acquired. Every time you learn something new, your brain forms neural connections, which are related to cellular changes within your brain. Classical (or pavlovian) conditioning occurs when two different stimuli come to be associated with one another.
