PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Systematic Desensitization, Classical Conditioning
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Learning- process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behaviour or capabilities (knowing how) Behaviourism- psychology"s views, if it can be true across all species , changes in behaviour, do they behave differently then they did before , learning is just changes in behaviour. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Explained learning sole in terms of directly observable events. 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. Learning- we pair things that don"t have a value or have a different value with naturally occurring pairing that value free or differently valued item will come to take on a new meaning (ie) Stimulus that elicits a re exive or innate, unconditioned response (ucr) without prior learning. Re exive or innate response elected by the ucs without prior learning.
