PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bee Sting, Doorbell, Classical Conditioning
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Learned and innate behaviors: animal behaviors are learned or innate. Innate: any inborn behavior as a result of maturation only, not from practice. Humans have reflexive behavior (single response) and learned behaviors, but not innate behavior (series of responses) Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior (potential) or mental processes from practice or experience. Conditioning: process of learning associations between environmental and internal* stimuli and responses; no stimuli, no response. Focuses on the association between stimuli and responses. Four types of learning: classical conditioning- reflexive, involuntary responses to stimuli other than original one. Not in control over: operant conditioning: voluntary responses to stimuli through consequences of previous acts. Previous experiences shape your current actions: cognitive learning theory: learning through thought processes underlying behaviors. No stimulus and no consequence of previous behaviors present: observational learning theory: learning behaviors by watching someone else perform behaviors. Must be watching someone else; a model.
