PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning
25 Oct 2016
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Why do we learn learning is adaptive (to be successful in changing environment. > must be able to change to adapt) promote survival (we can anticipate in mediate future that are important for our survival) for reward (safety, protection) to avoid punishment (dangers) Habituation simplest form of learning tendency to become familiar to a stimulus as a result of repetting exposure to this stimulus. Classical conditioning that occur in sequence their environment process of learning association between 2 stimulises a basic form of learning by which all organisms adapt to. Generalization there"re similiar stimulise in the environment to produce a conditioned response (response to a circular food bowl. Discrimination thereis a learn ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimulise that do not signal a unconditioned stimulus (response to a circular food bowl -> doesn"t response to a regtangular food bowl)
