PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Contiguity, Operant Conditioning, Learning

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Any relatively permanent change in behavior produced by experience. A process in which you form associations between stimuli and other events. By forming associations, we acquire new information and meaning and we behave differently. Classical conditioning unconditioned reflex: dog is hungry, dog sees food, dog salivates. Unconditioned stimulus (us): food the aspect of the environment that generates a response automatically without learning. Unconditioned response (ur): salivating the response evoked (not learned) by the us. Unconditioned: stimulus and response occur naturally, hard wired. Conditioned: connecting something new with the old us-ur relationship. Conditioned reflex: a new stimulus=response connection we created by associating the bell with salivation. Characteristics of the unconditioned reflex: innate and unlearned, permanent (usually, all members of the species have it, does not vary from individual to individual. Characteristics of the conditioned reflex: not present at birth, instead learned, impermanent (usually, not all members of the species have it, varies from individual to individual.