PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Canadian Psychological Association
2 Apr 2016
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Chapter outline: what is learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, learning and cognition, factors that facilitate learning, prenatal and postnatal learning, learning disabilities. Lasting change as a result of practice, study, or experience. Two types of learning (associative and non-associative) The most basic type of learning (aplysia) As we experience repeated stimuli, we become less sensitive to them. Associative learning connections are formed between two or more stimuli: classical conditioning, operant conditioning. Ivan pavlov testing salivary response of dogs to meat powder. He noticed that the dogs started salivating before they were presented with the food. This led him to do further experimentation Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) a stimulus that on its own elicits a response (i. e. , food) meat powder. Unconditioned response (ucr) a physical response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus; it does not need to be learned (i. e. , salivation)
