PSY 111 Lecture 1: Learning notes- Exam 2
Document Summary
Learning > relatively permenat change in an organisms behavior due to experience: associative learn to associate 2 stimuli, observational learn by watching others" experiences. Novel prize in 1904: incidental learning. Dogs began salivating when hearing food prepared outside. Discovered learning by association (we connect event/stimuli) C. c. = learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditional stimulus (re ex: before conditioning. Unconditioned stimulus causes reliable & automatic response: us(unconditioned stimulus/food) > ur(unconditioned response/salivation, neutral stimulus does not cause a response (no salivation in response to hearing a bell/tuning fork, during conditioning. Repeat several times until neutral stimulus becomes conditional stimulus: us >ur, cs >cr, dog food > salivation, bell > salivation. Clinical applications: food aversion in cancer patients. In-class videos: classical conditioning as told by fraiser crane, the of ce classical conditioning. + extinction: extinction= conditioned response will gradually weaken and eventually disappear when cs presented in the absence of us.
