PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Classical Conditioning, Psy, Behaviorism
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Changing in our abilities, attitudes that come from our experiences causes a relatively permanent change in our behavior. These changes come from: experiences, relatively permanent change, not due to maturation, illness of injury. He was focused on classical conditioning but the roots actually came before. The school of thought, behaviorism, came from john. Classical conditioning: we respond to a previously neutral stimulus as if it were a. Reflex: automatic response to some stimulus biologically important stimulus. Stimulus: any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds. How we got from the before conditioning phase, to the during conditioning phase, to the after conditioning phase. If a bunny who had never experienced the two stimuli paired together (crumpling bad, getting food) they would not respond in the same way as my cat had. Stimulus: whenever the bag of food would shake, the food would come next.
