EDP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Human Behavior

• School: Miami University
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDP 201
• Professor: Alicia Yannalfo

Document Summary

Human behavior can be studied similar to a natural science. Principle stating that a more-preferred activity can serve as a reinforcer for a less- preferred activity. Focuses on the learning of involuntary emotional or physiological responses such as fear, increased muscle tension, salivation, or sweating. Neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that evokes an emotional or physiological response until eventually, neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus leading to a conditioned response. Neutral stimulus has no initial response (the ringing of a bell will have no initial response for a dog) Unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that naturally causes a response (the smell of food causes a dog to salivate) Unconditioned response is the natural response to an unconditioned stimulus (the dog salivating in response to the smell of food) Conditioned stimulus the neutral stimulus becomes paired with the unconditioned. Stimulus (ringing the bell when food is presented leads to association with food)