PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Habituation
28 Dec 2015
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Change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Sensitization: responding more strongly to the same stimulus over time. Habituation: responding less strongly to the same stimulus over time: e. g. dangerous, irritating, e. g. , chronic snorers ignorant to their irritating sound. Classical conditioning: linking two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event or reaction. Operant conditioning: changing behavior choices in response to consequences. Cognitive learning: acquiring new behaviours and information through observing others. Associative learning: once connection is made, we only need one element to retrieve the. British associationists (1800"s): school of thinkers who believed that we acquire all of our knowledge by conditioning. Conditioning = forming associations between stimuli other from memory. Simple associations = mental building blocks for higher order thinking. Russian physiologist and 1904 nobel prize winner: most famous for work on digestion of the dog, made an unexpected discovery about how animals learning.
