PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Hebbian Theory

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Alexandra Paxton

Document Summary

Blinking when something approaches your eye, knee jerk when hit with hammer, etc. Newborn gazelle running from a cheetah, survival. Dog excited at its owners grabbing a leash because it means walk time. Ian pavlov was a russian psychologist that started the study of conditioning and learning in a psychological way. Observed saliva production in accordance with food. Noticed dogs would begin to salivate to the stimuli associated with food - like hearing the owner"s footsteps. Unconditioned stimulus : stimulus that elicits a reflex naturally (reflexes) Neutral stimulus : a stimulus that does not elicit the response we were observing or no. Conditioned stimulus : a stimulus an organism was taught to respond to. Conditioned response : the learned response to a stimulus. Sight of food & bell tone salivation. A brief time interval between a neutral stimulus and unconditioned response on order for the two to be linked.