PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ice Cream Van, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Psych chapter 5: learning: what is learning. Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. When people learn anything, some part of their brain is physically changed to record what they have learned. Any kind of change in the way an organism behaves is learning: pavlov and classical conditioning. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist (person who studies the workings of the body) who discovered classical conditioning through his work on digestion in dogs (1849-1936) Classical conditioning: learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex. Pavlov accidentally discovered the phenomenon in which one stimulus can, through pairing with another stimulus, come to produce a similar response. He called this (cid:498)classical conditioning. (cid:499: elements of classical conditioning. During conditioning: neutral stimulus -> unconditioned stimulus -> unconditioned response.
