PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning, Behavioralism, Clanging

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: racheldelacy

Document Summary

Learning: relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Learning associations develop through conditioning, a process in which environmental stimuli and behavioral responses become connected. Behavioralism was the dominant paradigm into the 1960"s, and it has had a lasting impact on many areas of psychology. Nonassociative: learning about a stimulus, like sight or sound, in the external world. Associative: learning the relationship between two pieces of information. Classical conditioning: learn that a stimulus predicts another stimulus. Operant conditioning: learn that a behavior leads to a certain outcome. Observational: learning by watching how others behave. Modeling: imitating a behavior learned in others. Vicarious learning: learning to engage in a behavior or not, after seeing others being rewarded or punished for performing that action. A neutral object comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response.