PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Motivation, Cognitive Map, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Intro: conditioning: learning to form associations, ex. Red light = stop, green = go: pavlov"s experiment a. Conditioned response/ stimulus: an originally unrelated stimulus that after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a response: acquisition: The initial stage when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. Higher order conditioning(weaker): hearing a tone signaling food and produces salivation, a light that becomes associated with the tone will begin to trigger salivation: extinction and spontaneous recovery. Extinction: the diminishing of a conditioned response, occurs when a. Spontaneous recover: the reappearance of a weakened cr after a pause, suggested that extinction was suppressing the cr rather than eliminating it: generalization. The tendency to respond a stimuli similar to cs: discrimination. The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli: extending pavlov"s understanding, cognitive processes. Animal can learn the predictability of an event.