PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dishabituation, Empiricism, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Kaityln Harrigan

Document Summary

Empiricist philosophers argued that learning involves the forming of simple associations. More complex learning simply involves many associations, layered. All learning depends on the same mechanisms and should be governed by the same principles. This research strategy has led to important discoveries some principles of learning have amazing generality and apply to many species and situations. But some forms of learning dont follow these principles. Habituation- decline in response to stimuli that have become familiar through repeated exposure. Dishabituation- a previously predictable stimulus changes, causing the organism to renew its attention to the stimulus. Classical conditioning- requires organism to build an association (repetition needed) Before conditioning- unconditioned stimulus causes unconditioned response. Second-order conditioning- when a cs-us relationship is well established the. Cs can be preceded by a second, neutral stimulus (dentist example) Extinction- trials in which the cs is presented without the us. Spontaneous recovery shows that the cr is only masked, not completely erased.