PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anterograde Amnesia, Classical Conditioning, Retrograde Amnesia
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Learning is a change in behavior (or potential behavior) that meets the following requirements: The individual now thinks, perceives, reacts to the environment in a new way. The change is a result of experience and is attributable to repetition, study, practice, or the observations one has made, rather than to hereditary or maturational processes or the physiological damage resulting from injury, Facts, thoughts, and behaviors that are acquired and immediately forgotten are not really learned: habituation, a simple form o learning in which an organism eventually stops responding to a stimulus that is repeated over and over. Itchy sweater worn repeatedly, stinky smell in a room you get used to. Three kinds of learning: operant conditioning, actions have consequences. Increase target behavior: positive reinforcement: behavior is followed by a pleasant stimulus (reward, negative reinforcement: behavior is followed by the termination of a negative stimulus, punishment: when a behavior is followed by an aversive stimulus.
