PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sensory Neuron, Laterality, Conditioned Taste Aversion
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Learning to ignore things which aren(cid:495)t harmful or interesting. An association between a stimulus and an instinctual response. The early psychologists thought that classical conditioning was a way to a scientific psychology. Conditioning: association between a stimulus and a response. Conditioning is what happens when an organism acquires an (cid:494)conditioning(cid:495) vs. (cid:494)learning(cid:495) Conditioning is something done to the animal (cid:523)e. g. (cid:494)jenny was conditioned to throw the ball(cid:495)(cid:524), while learning as something the (cid:494)organism(cid:495) means something living. The principles of learning apply to amoebas, pigeons, rats and animal actually does organism: humans association: An association is a connection between something in the environment and a behavior. You might have an association between seeing snakes and feeling fear stimulus: A stimulus (plural: stimuli) is pretty much anything you can perceive. E. g. respond to lecturer by taking notes on what he is saying. The original psychologists, william james, wilhelm wundt, (1880s1890s) used introspection.
