PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Antibody, Operant Conditioning
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Chapter 6: learning: learning: any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge due to experience, conditioning: learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Pavlov"s demonstration: psychic re exes : originally aimed to study role of saliva in digestive process of dogs by presenting meat powder with a clicking device and collecting saliva; discovered that tone from device produced the salivation response. Conditioned fear and anxiety: plays key role in shopping emotional responses like fear and anxiety, everyday anxiety responses less severe than phobias may be products of classical conditioning. Extinction: gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency: consistent presentation of the cs alone without the us leads to extinction in cc. Higher-order conditioning: a conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus: new conditioned responses are built on foundation of already established conditioned responses. 6. 2 operant conditioning: operant conditioning: voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences.
