PSYCH 1NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homeostasis, German Shepherd, Classical Conditioning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1NN3
• Professor: Ellen Mac Lellan

Document Summary

Associating two related events. the learning of a contingency between. Classical conditioning: a particular signal and a later event are paired in time/space. Conscious learning: reading a book or a student in a classroom. Unconscious learning: child only needs to touch a hot stove once to learn. The presentation of one stimulus leads to the presentation of another. Eg. lightening before the crash of thunder. A stimulus or event that occurs naturally prior to learning. Eg. dogs food being placed in it"s mouth will automatically trigger salvation. Response that occurs after the unconditional stimulus. Natural stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditional stimulus, to eventually. The response that occurs once the contingency between the cs and us has been learned. Eg. sound of the metronome eventually comes to elicit a cr of salvation trigger a response on it"s own. Process by which a contingency between a cs and cr is learned.