PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fear Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber
8 Feb 2018
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Learning: any process through which experience at one time can. Chapter 6: learning alter an individual"s behavior at a future time. Allows animals (including humans) to adapt to their environment, maximizing the chances of survival and therefore procreation (or optimizing one"s station in life) Nonassociative: learning about a stimulus, such as sight or sound in external world. Habituation: when our behavioral response to a stimulus decreases. Sensitization: when our behavioral response to a stimulus increases. Associative: learning relationship between two pieces of info, understanding how events are related. Classical conditioning: when we learn that a stimulus predicts another stimulus. Operant (instrumental) conditioning: when we learn that a behavior leaders to a certain outcome. Observational: learning by watching how others behave. Pavlov studied the immune system, by experiments on dogs. Noticed that dog would salivate even if they heard the noise that happens before food appeared.
