PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Learned Helplessness, Operant Conditioning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Learning: relaively permanent change in an organism"s behaviour due to experiences. Habituaion: organisms decrease response to a simulus with repeated exposure to it. Associaive learning: learning that certain events occur together, may be two simuli (classical) or a response and its consequence (operant) Classical: associates 2 simuli, learning of results prepare for next ime, between events it does not control. Operant: associate response (behaviour) and it"s consequence repeat acts for good results, avoid it for bad, between behaviour and resuling events. Classical condiioning: type of learning which one learns to link 2 simuli and anicipates events. Behaviorism: objecive science that studies behaviours without mental process. Dog given food (us) leads to saliva (ur) Tone (ns) and food in dogs mouth (us) leads to saliva (ur) Psychic secreion: dogs learned response to any cue to food. Uncondiioned response (ur): in classical condiioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the us, such as salivaion when food is in mouth.