PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Learning Curve, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Operant Conditioning
9 Aug 2018
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Your thoughts and internal states do not cause your behavior because event in your environment caused your thoughts. Those events are the real causes of your behavior. Stimulus-response psychology: the attempt to explain behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response. Ex: built-in mechanisms caused animals to move in adaptive ways without the animal necessarily having any desires or intentions. The process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli - a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response - is known as classical conditioning or. When pavlov gave food to a dog, the dog salivated. The food salivation connection was automatic and required no training. Pavlov called food the unconditioned stimulus and salivation the unconditioned response. The unconditioned stimulus (ucs) is an event that automatically elicits an unconditioned response. The unconditioned response (ucr) is the action that the unconditioned stimulus elicits.
