PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Psych 101 learning classical conditioning january 16th. Learning: relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs because of experience. Behaviourism: behaviour can be studied without referring to mental states. Learning that results from associations of neutral environmental stimuli with automatic responses. Dogs salivated to neutral stimuli associated with food. Putting an empty bowl and the dog started salivating, and then to the person and the sound of their footsteps was making the dog salivate. The anticipation from these ques, conditional upon it. Unconditioned stimulus (us): stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning. Unconditioned response (ur): reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning. Unconditioned means no learning necessary, even before any learning occur this response is there. A mammal salivates even without learning the ques when presented with food because it helps digestion. The reflex is made up of a stimulus and response. Conditioned stimulus (cs): initially neutral stimulus comes to elicit conditioned response.