PSY100Y5 Lecture 6: Chapter 6
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Learning any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Monkey in japan washing potato, all learned. Birds living in warehouses flutter near doors to activate automatic opening. Superstitions result of obtaining a reward after engaging in some behaviour. Phobias irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Principals that explain animal learning, explain human learning as well. Conditioning learning connections between events that occur in an organisms environment. Turned psychology from research focusing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection to a more objective, rigorous, scientific approach. Showed how stimuli in the external world controlled our actions and behaviour. De-emphasized the mind, and mentalistic accounts of behaviour. Showed how learning was under the influence of experience (cid:862)asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e (cid:271)uilt up i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess(cid:863) Neutral stimulus did not originally produce the response. How learned associations- basic building blocks of learning process- were formed by events in an organisms environment.
