PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Behaviorism, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Relatively permanent change in behaviour, emotion, cognition as a result of experience or practice. Can be a force of good or evil. What is learned can be unlearned; this gives us hope. Conditioning is learning about associations between 2 events or a behaviour and its consequences. Learning to form an association between 2 stimuli or 2 events. Through this, we learn that 1 event signals the arrival of another event e. g. : lightning signals thunder: pavlov"s experiments. Pavlov is the biggest name in psychology but he was an m. d. Dog learns to associate care giver with food. The salivation is the unconditioned (unlearned) response (ucr) bell. Salivation at the sound of the bell is the conditioned response (cr) Using an existing conditioned stimulus to train an organism to produce a conditioned response to new stimulus (i. e. : triangle) Using existing conditioned stimulus to create a new conditioned stimulus.