PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dependent And Independent Variables, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Table Tennis
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In general, learning is really speaking about is observable behavior and responses to stimuli. A lot of early behaviorist believed that everything you did was based on your environment history, leading to conditioning learning. Classical conditioning: think about the fact that the organism associates to the stimuli. Now the stimuli will give a response that would not have occurred. An example is the dog, the bell and the salivation. Pavlov noticed that whenever researchers were coming into the room, the dogs were salivating. S4 us: the thing that hasn"t been learned in any way. Initially you ring a bell, the dog doesn"t do anything. (owever if each time you bring. Ur: you have the stimulus which will elicit the response. In pavlov case, you have food which causes the dog to salivate. S5 food you ring a bell, the neutral stimulus (bell) becomes a conditioned. If you gave a puff of air into the air, you will blink.
