PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Brainstem, Grey Matter, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Learning - process by which behaviour/knowledge changes as a result of experience. Cognitive learning - reading, writing, taking tests in order to acquire knowledge. Acquisition - initial phase of learning in which a response is established. Extinction - loss/weakening of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus no longer occur together. Spontaneous recovery - reoccurrence of a previously extinguished conditioned response, typically after one time has passed since extinction. Stimulus generalization - process in which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to different, though similar stimuli. Discrimination - organism leaves to respond to one original stimulus but not to new stimuli that may be similar to the original. Application of classical conditioning classical conditioning applies to many situations (emotional learning, ads, etc) Conditioned emotional reponses - consist of emotional and physiological responses that develop to a specific object or situation.