PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Laine John

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Learning: as defined in the text: a relatively permanent change in behaviour, knowledge, capability or attitude . In studying the salivary response, pavlov noticed that dogs were salivating to indicators that preceded the actual food. Footsteps of laboratory assistant bringing the food. Pavlov"s dogs salivating at food happens spontaneously, therefore it is an unconditioned response. Pavlov found that the dogs salivating at the lab assistant or the food dish was a conditioned response. We can use conditioned and unconditioned to think about the stimuli that brought about the salivation response. The food brings about the salivation response automatically and spontaneously, without a process of learning, which makes it the unconditioned stimulus. The lab assistant"s footsteps, which had been associated with food over time, produced learning in the dog that caused it to salivate: hence, the conditioned stimulus. Pavlov paired food powder with a variety of neutral stimuli, in that they would not produce a.