PS102 Lecture Notes - Determinism, Applied Behavior Analysis, Observational Learning
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) due to experience. Behaviourism: approach that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment as a determinant of behaviour. Conditioning: basic kind of learning that involve associations between environmental stimuli and the organism"s responses. Pavlov"s works with salivation in dogs led to discovery of learning principles. Process by which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit a response through association with a stimulus that already elicits a similar or related response. Example: a dog starts to salivate before actually getting the food. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning (ex. Unconditioned response (ur): reflexive response elicited by a stimulus in the absence of learning (ex. Neutral stimulus: stimulus that does not yet produce a response regularly pared with an unconditioned stimulus and the neutral stimulus becomes conditioned to elicit a response (ex.
