PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning

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

Document Summary

Learning = relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs because of experience. Social-cognitive learning - reintroduced mental processes to learning. Behaviourism = behaviour that can be studied without referring to mental states: classical conditioning (pavlov & watson), operant conditioning (skinner* - most famous in history, observational learning & imitation. Learning that results from associations of neutral environmental stimuli with automatic responses (interaction b/w 2 stimuli*) Automatic, involuntary response triggered by human body to an environmental stimulus sweat, blushing, flinch. Pavlov"s salivation studies: used food to induce salivation, dogs salivated to neutral stimuli associated with food, conditional reflex; response conditional on environment/experience. Unconditioned stimulus (us) - stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning (not learnt! Unconditioned response (ur) - reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning. Conditioned stimulus (cs) - initially neutral stimulus comes to elicit conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr) - reflexive response elicited by the conditional stimulus.