PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Learning, Spatial Navigation, Sensory Cue

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: sarah radtke

Document Summary

Learning: lasting change as a result of practice, study, or experience. Associative learning a change as a result of experience where two or more stimuli become linked ( cringing when u see drill at dentist bc u associate it with pain it caused you in past) Dishabituation - a form of non-associative learning whereby there is a recovery of attention to a novel stimulus following habitation. Habituation - weakening of response to a stimulus after repeated presentation. Sensitization - a strong stimulus results in an exaggerated response to the subsequent presentation of weaker stimuli (helpful for survival) Associative learning(classical/operant conditioning) - connections are formed between two or more stimuli. Classical conditioning: association of 2 stimuli, founded by ivan pavlov. Unconditioned stimulus (us) - a stimulus that on its own elicits a response (i. e. , food) Unconditioned response (ur) - a physical response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus; it does not need to be learned (i. e. , salivation)