PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Little Albert Experiment, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Reinforcement Learning
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Chapter 6: learning, learning is a relatively enduring change in behavior that results from experience. It allows organisms to exhibit behavior that is better adapted to their environment. Types of learning: classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning: classical conditioning is when a neutral object comes to elicit a response when paired with a stimulus that already produces a result. The process: acquisition gradual formation of an association between cs and us, extinction weakening of the cr after the cs is presented without the us. Spontaneous recovery following extinction, if the cs is presented alone, it will produce a weak cr. If a reaction is given, it will never be as strong as the previous times. Stimulus generalization is learning that occurs when stimuli that are similar, but not identical to, the cs produce the cr. Stimulus discrimination is differentiation between the two stimuli when only one is consistently associated with the us.
