PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vending Machine, Learning, Classical Conditioning
22 Nov 2016
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Learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience. Deer in forest who has hunters come by, he might avoid human interactions. O(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:455) to g(cid:455)(cid:373), (cid:455)ou(cid:396) (cid:271)od(cid:455) is (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:272)ued that (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e a(cid:271)out to experience high level activities. Pavlov: reflexive responses associate with cues, spent speech talking about pavlovion/classical conditioning. Watson: prediction and control of behaviour, psychology has to look at things that must be objectively measured, pushed for behaviourism being the top of psychology. Skinner: prediction and control of behaviour. Main types of learning: non-associative learning: info about one external stimulus. Habituation: decrease in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus: putting clothes on in the morning, you feel it but not you no longer care. Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus: watching horror movies, loud noise or poke beside you heightens your senses. Monday, september 19, 2016: associative learning: how two or more pieces of info are related.
