PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Time, Tantrum, Slot Machine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Acquiring and retaining new: )nformation (cid:523)knowing that ex. A dozen eggs contains (cid:883)(cid:884) eggs etc. (cid:524: behavior (knowing how, emotional responses. We can also learn emotional responses (getting scared when seeing a spider etc. ) Associative learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning. Social learning: observational learning, play, enculturation, dialogic learning. J. b. watson everyone (blank slate: argued we don"t really need to think about genetics we can train, argued that we don"t have free will but what were doing is were reacting to positive rewards created by society. Conditioning is: the process of learning associations between events and (behavioral) responses. Classical conditioning is: a type of learning where we learn to associate two stimuli and to. Thought to be the process behind acquisitions of phobias anticipate events. It would make sense for us to make an association between a snake with fear than making an association with keys, water bottles, phones etc.