01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Habituation, Observational Learning, Foodborne Illness

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Sarah Carton

Document Summary

Learning a process through which experience produces lasting change in behavior or mental processes . Habituation learning not to respond to repeated presentation of a stimulus (i. e. , reduced response w/ repetition) . Instincts motivated behaviors that have a strong innate basis. Mere exposure effect : learned preference for stimuli to which we have been previously exposed (familiarity preference) Behavioral learning : forms of learning that can be described in terms of stimuli and responses , classical conditioning & operant conditioning. Classical conditioning: basic form of learning in which a stimulus that produces an innate reflex becomes associated with a previously neutral stimulus, which then acquires the power to elicit essentially the same response. Neutral stimulus any stimulus that produces no conditioned response prior to learning . Acquisition initial learning stage in classical conditioning conditioned response (cr) becomes elicited by the conditioned stimulus (cs) Unconditioned stimulus: the stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response.