PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reinforcement, Seat Belt, Cognitive Map

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

All learning involves the formation of association between two formerly unrelated (or unassociated) events. In classical conditioning, the association between two stimuli is learned. In operant conditioning, the association between a response to a stimulus and a subsequent consequence is learned. The response to a repeated, constant stimulus becomes smaller and eventually ceases: this could be a result of adaptation or habituation. Habituation involves the formation of a memory of the features of stimulus: features of incoming stimulus compared to what exists in memory, if they match, response will be smaller and eventually not occur. Involves the formation of new memories and learning. The formation of memories in these simple n. s. is assumed to be the same as in a more complex n. s. Formation of memories involves a change in the n. s. Principles first discovered by i. pavlov in leningrad 1920s. Acquisition (learning curve: all learning takes time, the cr only occurs after a number of repetitions of the ucs-