PSYCH 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Psych
27 Jan 2016
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Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior, thoughts, and feelings of an organism that results from prior experiences, think, feel, act differently then you have learned, conditioning: learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. For future reference, associate one thing with another. Classical conditioning: ivan pavlov (1903) russian physiologist. Originally trying to measure how much dogs drool while being fed. Unconditioned stimulus (us) stimulus that produces a response without prior learning (the food) Unconditioned response (ur) unlearned response automatically elicited by the us (drool) Conditioned stimulus (cs) previously neutral stimulus that acquires capacity to evoke a cr (lab tech) Conditioned response (cr) learned response that occurs after the cs-us pairing (drool at lab tech, or eventually the bell: basic processes in classical conditioning: Acquisition initial stage of learning something. Extinction gradual weakening and the disappearance of a conditioned response tendency. Spontaneous recovery reappearance of an extinguished response.
