PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Reinforcement, Nobel Peace Prize, Classical Conditioning

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

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Behaviourism: started with proponents that mental life was much less important than behavior as a foundation for psychological science (b. f. skinner, 1904-1990) J. b. watson (1878- 19580: how do we learn through associations? ivan pavlov. Dogs salivated at the sound of a bell. After conditioning: response (salivates) conditioned stimulus> conditioned response(dog salivates) Neutral stimulus (ns)- a stimulus which does not trigger a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) and response (ur)- a stimulus which triggers a response aturally, before/ without any conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs)- a stimulus that will trigger the learned cr. Conditoned response (cr)- the learned response triggered by the cs. Acquire the association between a ns and an us. An acquisition has occurred when the ur now gets triggered by cs timing: for the association to be acquired the ns needs to repeatedly appear before the us. Diminishing of a cr that occurs when cs is presented without the.