PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Eyeblink Conditioning, Little Albert Experiment
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Learning: experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Classical conditioning: a re exive or automatice type of learning in which a stimulus evokes a response that was orignially evoked by another stimulus. Other types of learning also include observational learning and learning outside of awareness (implicit learning). Interested in the way behavior is conditioned by association. Conducted experiments to test behavioral responses to stimuli. Classical conditioning: when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response; rst studied by ivan. Unconditioned stimulus (us): something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. Unconditioned response (ur): a re exive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism. Conditioned response (cr): a reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus.
