PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement

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

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Learning: provide an operational definition of learning, describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical. Identify the ucs, cs, ucr and cr: describe the basic principles of stimulus generalization and discrimination, describe habituation, contrast contiguity and contingency, and describe the importance of these for conditioning to occur, define learning". All behaviour was reflexive/ due to inborn ideas. Born with no ideas or knowledge of behaviour, we learned from. Focused on nurture, life experience shapes us infant"s mind. Focused on nature, we are born the way we are. Little to no influence from life experience linked tabula rasa , blank slate in. Three types of learning: association (classical conditioning, consequences (operant learning, observational learning. Classical conditioning learning that occurs from association between two stimuli: pavlov experiment operational measurement = how much a dog salivated to the non-food stimulus. Stimulus elicits desired behaviour before learning (the food) Reflexive response to unconditioned stimulus (salvation to the food)