Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Habituation

• School: UofL
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Petrusvander Velde

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively-permanent change in behaviour caused by experience. Perception is directly associated with change. (see: boiled frog metaphor. Actually inaccurate, at one point the frog just jumps out). Types of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive and social learning, other(?) Key difference between classical and operant conditioning: classical = circumstantial, operant = Ring the bell every time the dog eats and the dog will begin to associate the bell with the food, so that ringing the bell makes it salivate even when there is no food. Stimulus generalization (eg: the ring of a bell becomes any kind of ringing sound") Stimulus discrimination (eg: only the ring of this specific bell and no others elicits this behaviour) Pigeon turns around when the thing is red and gets seeds. Positive reinforcement = addition of a good thing (you get chocolate if you do it)