PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tabula Rasa, B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning
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Inborn patterns of behaviour elicited by environmental stimuli. A relatively permanent change in behaviour or the capacity for behaviour that occurs due to experience. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Explained learning solely in terms of directly observable events. Occurs when we form connection among stimuli and/or behaviours. Based on internal responses to naturally occurring stimuli. Studied salivary response in dogs is a natural response no learning required. Unconditioned stimulus ucs a stimulus that naturally and reliably evokes a response. Unconditioned response ucr the response that is naturally and reliably elicited by the unconditioned stimulus. Neutral stimulus ns a stimulus that does not initially elicit the unconditioned response. Conditioned stimulus cs a stimulus that was once neutral but, through association with the us, now elicits a response. Conditions response cr after conditioning has occurred, the response that is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.
