PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning
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Psyc 1 lecture 6 part 8: learning. Learning: process of acquiring information/behaviors through experience; relatively permanent change in behavior as a function of experience: we live in an unpredictable world, so we cannot just survive through reflexes and instinct, need consciousness. Associative learning: type of conditioning; understanding that two things go together: classical conditioning: learning to associate one stimulus with another stimulus. Noticed over time, dogs began to salivate when it heard the sound of the food being delivered. One way that virtually all organisms learn to adapt to environment. Conditioned stimulus (cs): what was a neutral stimulus that learned to be associated with something else. Stimulus = thing; something that elicits a response. Extinction: stopping of a learned behavior; conditioned response becomes extinct, happens when the other stimulus is no longer paired with it. Dog stops salivating when you stop presenting the food with the bell. Generalization: generalizing a learned response to other stimuli.
