PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Systematic Desensitization, Classical Conditioning, B. F. Skinner
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Process by which experience produces a relatively enduring/permanent change in behavior or capabilities (knowing how) You are not demonstrating learning if you demonstrate something once. Ie goldfish learning how to play soccer- goldfish learned a new capabilities- this is not natural. Conditioning: learning is a product of events that occur in our environment. Based on internal responses to naturally occurring stimuli. Some things we encounter in the world naturally elicit a response in us. Ie thinking of lemon tasting stimulus elicits you to produce more salvia when thinking about it. Ie thinking about hot sunny day, you start to relax- heat is a natural stimulus to causes you to relax. In learning : when we pair things that don"t have a value, or have a different value with these naturally occurring pairings, the new item (value free/differently valued) will come to take on the new meaning.
