PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviorism, Empiricism, Habituation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Learning: change in behavior or potential behavior that results from experience. Ivan pavlov conducted famous experiment with salivating dog: used a previously neutral stimulus to facilitate a conditioned response. Stimulus discrimination: refers to the process of breaking a generalization by removing reinforcement from one of the stimuli only giving dog the food when the bell goes off, not the gong so dog will stop responding to it. Conditioned taste aversion: when you learn to dislike a certain food that was associated with a bad/negative experience. Ie) if you got food poisoning while eating chicken and after that experience cannot eat chicken, you have experienced conditioned taste aversion. Reinforcement (taking stimulus away) are both ways to increase behavior: positive punishment (adding a punishment/stimulus) and negative punishment (taking something away) are both ways to decrease behavior. Chaining: reinforcing behavior by breaking down a task into small steps to reinforce individual responses occurring in a sequence.