PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Contiguity, Certified Emission Reduction, Classical Conditioning
28 Sep 2015
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Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. Does not include temporary changes due to disease, injury, maturation, or drugs. Reinforcement: any event that increases the probability that a response will recur. Observable: eating, scratching, and the famous lever press. Classical (pavlovian) conditioning: a neutral object comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist who initially was studying digestion. Pavlov noticed the dogs salivated as soon as they saw the bowls that usually contained food, suggesting a learned response. A stimulus innately capable of eliciting a response. An innate re ex response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus. A stimulus that does not provoke the unconditioned response. A stimulus that evokes a response because it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus. A learned response elicited by a conditioned stimulus. Pavlov was in uenced by darwin and believed that conditioning is the basis of adaptive behaviors.
