PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Hydrocephalus
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Learning: process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors. Association of certain events occur together (classical conditioning); stimuli that are not control are associated and response is automatic (operant: consequences: association between a response and consequences is learned (operant) Acquisition of mental info that guides behavior (cognitive learning) Behaviorism: psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with 1 but not 2. Classical conditioning: type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Deals with reflexes or responses that are evoked from a specific stimulus. Pavlov (first russian nobel prize winner in physiology or medicine: studying the digestive system in dogs, found that depending on what you pair food with, you can train dogs to salivate at the sound of the bell. Dog is presented with some food so food stimulus (unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response)
