PSYC 1101 Lecture 6: Chapter 6
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Chapter 6: learning: a relative permanent change in behavior brought about by repeated experience. Association: our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Stimulus: any event or situation that evoke a response. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. It could be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (operant conditioning) Types of learning: classical conditioning (pavlov, operant/instrumental conditioning (skinner, observational learning (bandura) Associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. Example: a flash of lightning will be followed by a crack of thunder, so when lighting flash nearby, we start to brace ourselves. Ivan pavlov"s dog classical experiment: there is a neutral stimulus (the bell), which by itself will not produce a response, like salivation. There"s also a non-neutral or unconditioned stimulus (the food), which will produce an unconditioned response (salivation). Soon when the bell ring it would automatically produce the conditioned response (salivation).
