PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning
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Case study: treating headaches caused from bad weather. Two types of unconscious learning: classical conditioning. Allows us to associate two related events. Allows us to associate actions and consequences. Definition: the learning of a contingency between a particular signal and a later event that are paired in time and/or space. Foundation for classical conditioning was done by the famous russian physiologist ivan pavlov (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s-(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) Interested in the stages of digestion, which began with salivation in the mouth as food was first ingested. Dog would salivate before the food reached his mouth (as if an early step in the process of digestion was triggered even before the food stimulus arrived) I(cid:374) pa(cid:448)lo(cid:448)"s fa(cid:373)ous e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, the sou(cid:374)ds of a (cid:373)etro(cid:374)o(cid:373)e sig(cid:374)aled to the dog that food (cid:449)as going to be delivered. Prior to the training, the sound had no observable effect. When an organism learns the association between a signal and an event, we say that a.
