PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Classical Conditioning, Contiguity, Operant Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

A more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical. Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which an animal (or test subject) learns to associate two stimuli. The classic example of this conditioning is pavlos"s dogs experiment where he was able to produce a physiological response in dogs (salivating) by ringing a bell which they had come to associate with food. Thought to generate un conscious reflexive response to cs: identify the ucs, cs, ucr and cr. In the case of pavlov"s dogs the unconditioned stimulus is the food being given to the dogs. The dogs salivating to for the food was the unconditioned response. After training something that had been a neutral stimulus (the bell) became a conditioned stimulus that produced a conditioned response (salivating). Pavlov hypothesized that the conditioned stimulus would produce an unconditioned response.