PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John B. Watson, Rosalie Rayner, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Lecture 6 - october 9, 2012 : learning. Pairing things together - why adverisers pair what they"re trying to sell with things that we like (scenery, music, atracive people, etc. ) Two kinds of associaions that we use to learn (older theories of psych - how we acquire our behaviours etc. Belief of the associaion-ists is that we come to the earth with a blank slate, and what we learn, experience, etc. , ill up the blank slate. Classical condiioning: creaing an associaion by coniguity; we associate things based on ime or space; simple simulus response learning. S: simulus, r: response; start with simulus and a response, take a new simulus and pair it with model for example and build a new simulus response. Learning: a relaively permanent change in behaviour caused by experience. Acquisiion phase: when the connecion is made (the learning phase); period in which the associaion is occurring. Possibility of exincion: the diminishing of an associaion.