PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Albert Bandura, Aversion Therapy, Conditioned Taste Aversion

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Russell Day

Document Summary

Psych 100 unit 5 (chapter 7) learning. Individual differences (drinking alchohol is a learned activity: a relattively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour (or capability) due to experience. Able to desmonstrate karate but never had the opportunity to do so. Nonassiciative types of learning (havituation & sensitization) Operant conditioning: thorndike, skinner (cognition & learning?) If people can learn, they can become what they want to be, biology does not limit. What happened: studying physiology of digestion, serendiptous finding, impications, no control over it (candy in mouth reflexive response: salavate) Elements of classical conditioning (c. c: 3 elements. A neutral stimulus (bell to humans: no biological connection to hunger/eating) Ucs unconditioned stimulus: no learning needed. Ucr unconditioned response: no control over it (wind blown into eye will result in blinking, no learning needed to have a response. Cs conditioned stimulus: was originally a neutral stimulus, through multiple pairings, became a cs. Extinction: conditioned stimulus alone, makes no unconditioned stimulus and eventually no.