PSYC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Habituation

• School: University of Winnipeg
• Department: PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSYC-1000
• Professor: Strub

Document Summary

Learning to associate two stimuli in a way that helps us predict the 2nd one. Acquiring new behaviours and information through observation rather than direct experience. The most basic learning phenomenon -- universal throughout the animal kingdom. Repeated stimulus or event leading to a reduced reaction. A relatively permeant change in behaviour due to experience. Associative learning - linking two events that occur close together in time. Classical conditioning - after repeated exposure to a stimulus, you develop a response. A stimulus which triggers a response naturally, reflexively, without any. A stimulus which does not trigger a response. The bell (ns) is presented with the food (us) such that : ns --> us, repeatedly = The dog begins the salivate upon hearing the bell (thus demonstrating that the. Ns/bell has been transformed into a cs/bell), causing a conditioned response (cr/dog salivating) The ur and the cr are the same response, triggered by different events.