PSYC 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motivation, Learned Helplessness, Behaviorism

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 10a
• Professor: Wright Ellen

Document Summary

Learning: the acquisition of new knowledge, skills or responses from experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of a learner. Orienting response: attention and alertness toward a novel or interesting source. Habituation: a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding. Sensitization: occurs when presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus. Dishabituation: when we respond to an old stimulus as if it were new again. Classical conditioning: occurs when a neural stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Unconditioned stimulus: something that reliably produces a naturally occurring response within an organism. Unconditioned response: a reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: a previously neural stimulus that produces a reliable response in an organism after being paired with the ucs.