PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Behaviorism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

You see a spider and you associate it with pain: operant conditioning: we associate responses with specific consequences. But note that there is also learning theory and observational learning: basics of learning, learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) due to experience, behaviourism: approach that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment as a determinant of behaviour, conditioning: basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism"s responses. Studied the digestive system for two decades: won the nobel prize for physiology in 1904, accidentally discovered classical conditioning through his work on salivation with dogs. Investigated this phenomenon further through experimentation. e: habituation and sensitization, habituation, the simplest form of learning, a decrease in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus, occurs in the cns not sensory neurons. Sensory adaptation: different from habituation.