PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: German Shepherd, Observational Learning, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Doing things to get reactions from our environment. If we behave well we get rewards, if we don"t we get punished/ laughed at etc. Interested in looking at observable behaviours and determining their antecedents (prior) and consequences. Learning: refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour that occurs as a result of practice or of experience. 3 general types of learning: classical conditioning (pavlov): there are 4 elements to classical conditioning. First is the unconditioned response (ur) (the salivation), a response that is automatic or reflexive. It is involuntary. (like when you get a sand in your eye and blink) Unconditioned stimulus (us) (food), a stimulus that precedes and elicits (triggers) the. Conditioned stimulus (cs) (bell which is neutral), any stimulus that is paired with the. Conditioned response (cr) (the salivation), the response that"s elicited by the cs. It"s the same as the ur: operant conditioning (skinner, cognitive learning- Observational learning. acquiring mental information or learning through language.