PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Walter Mischel, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin 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) Operant conditioning changing behavioural responses in response to consequences (contingencies) 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 (field created by b. f. Noticed his dogs salivated at the sound of a bell. Neutral stimulus + unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response. Neutral stimulus a stimulus which does not trigger a response. Unconditioned stimulus/response a stimulus which triggers a response naturally, before/without any conditioning. Conditioned stimulus a stimulus that will trigger the learned conditioned response. Conditioned response the learned response triggered by the conditioned stimulus. Acquired: the association between a neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus. The unconditioned response now gets triggered by the conditioned stimulus.