EPSY 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
12 Feb 2020
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Learning: changes in knowledge or behavior due to experience interaction of a person with his/her/ environment. Internal mental activity that cannot be observed directly. Outcome of learning is change in behavior. Emphasizes the effects of external events on individuals. Behavioral explanation of learning: things are similar, when the contrast, when they are contiguous (adjacent) Whenever 2+ events occur together often enough, they will be associated. In classical conditioning, we learn to associate 2 stimuli and to anticipate events. In operant conditions, we learn to associate our actions with consequence (-/+) Focuses on learning of involuntary emotional or physiological responses. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): the objects or event that originally produces. Focus is on deliberate actions because we learn to behave in certain ways as we operate on the environment. Our response (deliberate actions) determines the kind of stimuli received (consequences) Rewards: concrete awards, activity reward, exemption rewards,
