PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Social Learning Theory, Operant Conditioning, Santa Barbara City College
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Evolution: the changes in behavior that accumulate across generations are stored in the genes. Learning: the changes in behaviour that accumulate over a lifetime are stored in the central nervous system. Behaviorists argued that unobservable phenomenon aren"t necessary for an understanding of human nature. Knowledge is learned blank slates at birth. Learning by associating two stimuli together (anything that stimulates nervous system) Learning occurs when you recognize that one even predicts another. Repeatedly pairing ucs {without learning}(food) and neutral stimulus (bell) Conditioned stimulus (cs) conditioned response (cr) (look at slides with dogs ) Everytime robert"s wife flushes the toilet when he"s in the shower, the water becomes painfull hot. One day as robert is stepping into the shower he hears a flushing sound and flinches. Dental work now walking into the reception room makes her palms sweaty. Girlfriend loves onions when kissed cold taste onion on breath now turned on with. Spontaneous recovery begin to have feeling again after extinction.
