PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operant Conditioning, Tabula Rasa, Classical Conditioning
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Ps101 - lecture 7 - learning part 1. Process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behaviour or capabilities (knowing how) Focused on how organisms (all of them) learn. Examined processes by which experience influences behaviour. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Treated organism as tabula rasa (without predispositions) Explained learning solely in term of directly observable events. Learning is a product of events that occur in our environment. Based on internal responses to naturally occurring stimuli (ex lemon) Premise: some things we encounter in the world naturally elicit a response in us (ex beach) Learning: when we pair things that don"t have a value or have a different value with naturally occurring pairings, the value free or differently valued item will come to take on a new meaning. Stimulus that elicits a reflexive or innate, unconditioned response without prior learning. Reflexive or innate response elicited by the ucs without prior learning.
