PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prosocial Behavior, Reinforcement, B. F. Skinner
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Learning defined: any permanent change in behavior due to experiences. Conditioning: a kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and responses. The organism learns to associate two stimuli. One produces a response that originally was only produced by the other. Response which is the conditioned stimulus (salivate to bell) Phase of classical conditioning when the us and cs are paired together. Repeat the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus over time and the conditioned response will disappear (dog with metronome and electric shock) After a response has been extinguished it may spontaneously reappear after the passage of time with exposure to the conditioned stimulus. Pairing a neutral stimulus with the conditioned stimulus will create another conditioned stimulus, although a weaker conditioned response. More likely to show extinction (food with bell, bell with light - dog will salivate to light turning on, not as strong of a reaction - reaction will fade)
