01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alarm Clock, Motivation, Reinforcement

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Keiko Taga Brynildsen

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as the result of experience: heavily in uenced by behaviorism. How do we learn: associative learning: learning relationships among events. Classical conditioning: form associations between pairs of stimuli that occur sequentially in time. Operant conditioning: form associations between behaviors and their consequences: observational learning. Conditioning: classical conditioning: a previously neutral stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus through repeated pairing, pavlov: russian physiologist. Noticed dogs salivated at mere sight of food dish - learned to associate dish with food: presented food with a neutral stimulus (bell tone, measured salivation in response to neutral stimulus. Pavlov: classical conditioning: unconditioned response (ur): innate response to unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that automatically elicits response without prior conditioning. Ur = salivation, ucs = food: conditioned response (cr): learned response to a stimulus that did not originally evoke that response.