Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Electrodermal Activity, Hypothalamus, Allergen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Learning: is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities (process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives). Capabilities: highlights a distinction made by many theorists: knowing how , or leaning, versus doing , or performance. Habituation and sensitization: involve a change in behaviour that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus. Classical conditioning: occurs when two stimuli become associated wit each other. Operant conditioning: we learn to associate our responses with specific consequences. Observational learning: we learn by watching others behave. Interaction with immediate and past environment: the cognitive perspective, biological factors, and cross-cultural psychology have expanded our understanding of learning. Habituation: is the decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus: key adaptive function, e. g. Sensitization: increase in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus: each time the stimulus reoccurs it elicits a stronger response, tends to occur to strong or noxious stimuli.