PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Albert Bandura, Social Cognitive Theory, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: Melissa Gibbons

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively enduring or permanent change in behavior after experience with a certain stimuli and response. Classical conditioning: a neutral stimulus has the ability to produce a response that was originally by a different stimulus, ivan pavlov, experimented with dogs and ringing a bell. Cognitive learning: involves mental processes and attention, may be though observation but not necessarily imitated associated with rewards or observable behavior, albert bandura, found that if children watched a violent film they would. Neutral stimulus: stimulus that produces a sensory response but not the reflex being tested. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that produces a physiological reflex such as eye blink. Unconditioned response: involuntary physiological reflex caused by the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: formerly neutral stimulus that can create a response that was previously produced by the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response: produced by the conditioned stimulus but in lower quantity than the unconditioned response.