PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asteroid Family, Classical Conditioning, Anxiety Disorder
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Learning: durable change in behaviour or knowledge dur to a particular experience. Superstition: is a result of reward obtained from a behavior regardless whether both are related or not. Conditioning : making a connection between events occurring in environment around us. Personal application : principles of conditioning improving self control. Classical conditioning: type of learning where stimulus acquires the capacity to produce a response originally evokes due by another stimulus. This is also k(cid:374)ow(cid:374) as (cid:862)pavlovia(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g named after the person ivan pavlov who first discovered this type of conditioning. Purpose: studying role of saliva in digestive process of dogs usi(cid:374)g (cid:862)ps(cid:455)chic refle(cid:454)es(cid:863) Unconditioned stimulus: evokes response which is unconditioned without any prior conditioning . Example: the bond between meat powder and salvation was an unconditioned association. Conditioned stimulus: is previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to response due to conditioning. Unconditioned and conditioned response often consist of same behavior.
