PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Organism, Seat Belt, Traffic Ticket

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both forms of associative learning, yet their difference is straightforward. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Classical conditioning forms associations between stimuli (a conditioned stimulus, or cs, and the unconditioned stimulus, or us, it signals). It also involves respondent behavior actions that are automatic responses to a stimulus (such as salivation in response to meat powder and later in response to a tone) In operant conditioning, organisms associate their own actions with consequences. Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishers often decrease. Behavior that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli is called operant behavior. Operant conditioning: a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.