PSY 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
30 Apr 2023
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Learning: process of acquiring through experience and new and relatively enduring information. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. Stimulus: an event or situation that evokes a response. Conditioning: the process of learning associations which take two primary forms: Classical conditioning: we associate stimuli that we do not control, and we automatically respond. Operant conditioning: we associate a response ( our behavior) and its consequences (producing operant behavior) Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing. Ivan pavlov"s early twentieth-century experiments are psychologists" most famous research. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Psych(1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to a mental process. Most researchers today agree with (1) and not (2) Neutral stimulus:(ns): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Conditioned response: in classical conditioning, a learned response to a previously neutral(but now conditioned)stimulus.
