PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Behaviorism, Conditioned Taste Aversion
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Learning: a change in thought or behavior resulting from experience. Stimulus: anything in the environment to which an organism might react. Response: any behavior resulting from a stimulus. Behaviorism: early field of psychology that focused only on observables (changes in behavior) Parsimony: seeking the simplest explanations for behaviors. Assumptions of behaviorism: the mind is a black box: stimulus --> mind (whatever, i don"t care)--> response, mental processes are inferred and are not simple to observe or measure, mental explanations are insufficient and circular. Classical conditioning: the process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli- one that elicits an automatic response (reflex) and a neutral one. Pavlov"s dogs: us: food, ur: savliation, cs: metronome, cr: salivation to metronome. The first time ann took a shower in her new dorm, she heard someone flush the toilet, and then she got scalded by hot water. Ann heard the toilet flush, she jumped back.
