PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Organism, Walter Mischel, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Lisa Giguere

Document Summary

Classical conditioning: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction (associative learning: eg: hearing a bell and knowing food is coming. Operant conditioning: changing behavioural responses in response to consequences (contingencies: eg: smiling at someone, they smile back; keep smiling, they start getting mad, so you stop. Cognitive (latent) learning: learning that can occur without reinforcement and without being directly observable. Behaviourism: started with proponents that mental life was much less important than behaviour as a foundation for psychological science. Noticed his dogs salivate at the sound of a bell: before conditioning: Unconditioned stimulus (us) (food) unconditioned response (ur) (dog salivates: during conditioning: Neutral stimulus (ns) + unconditioned stimulus (us) unconditioned response (ur) (dog salivates: after conditioning: Conditioned stimulus (cs) (bell) conditioned response (cr) (dog salivates) Neutral stimulus (ns: a stimulus which does not trigger a response.