PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Contiguity

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Begosh Kristen

Document Summary

Learned relatively permanent behavior changes due to experience. Two types of associative learning: classical conditioning types of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. The bell is no longer associated with the food: generalization tendency to respond with the conditioned response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus. Testing: showing the turtle a photo of a mouse (change the stimulus), but the turtle responds in the same way. This shows the turtle is generalized: discrimination learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other irrelevant stimuli. Training: showing a turtle, a photo of a rabbit and shocking the rabbit virtually, as a result the turtle shrinks into its shell. Testing: showing the turtle a photo of a snake (change the stimulus), but the turtle responds in the different way. This shows the turtle is treating the two stimuli differently (as two separate things: cognitive processes predictability, biological predispositions.