PSYC 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
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A relatively permanent change in theifr behavior brought about by experience. Main types of conditioning (making associations and seeing contengencies: classical conditioning. Basic idea: the ability to modify future behavior as a result of past experience. A relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience. Became interested in the way behavior is conditioned by association. Occurs when a neutral stimulus is associated with a stimulus that produces a. Important terms: unconditioned stimulus (us) unconditioned response (ur) conditioned stimulus (cs) conditioned response (cr) Check out this link if you want to see some archival footage of pavlov"s original experiments. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=hhqumfpxuzi. 1913: psychology as the behaviorist views it : goal of psychology: the prediction and control of behavior . 1919: psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist: states of consciousness are not objectively verifiable and for that reason can never become data for science . John watson and his assistant raynor conducted a controversial study of learning, using classical conditioning.
