PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Neural Adaptation, Operant Conditioning
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Given that the goals of therapy is to help the client make changes, it helps to understand how clients can change. Learning-relatively stable change in behavior or thinking as a result of experience over time. Habituation (most simplistic type of learning)- weaker response to repeated stimuli over time (remember sensory adaptation) [sea slug] Classical conditioning- learning to link 2 stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction (has to do with what happens before you have an involuntary response) Operant conditioning- changing behavior choices in response to consequences to experienced (has to do with what happens after some voluntary behavior) Cognitive learning- acquiring new behaviors through observation and information, rather than by direct experience. Classical conditioning- stimulus develops capacity to create a response that was originally brought on by some other stimulus. New stimulus now has ability to bring on predictable response that it normally did not cause.