PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tequila, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Observational Learning

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 301
• Professor: James Pennebakerand Sam Gosling

Document Summary

Blocking: in classical conditioning, the finding that no conditioning occurs to a stimulus if it is combined with a previously conditioned stimulus during conditioning trials. Suggests that information, surprise value, or prediction error is important in conditioning. Categorize: to sort or arrange different items into classes or categories. Classical conditioning: the procedure in which an initially neutral stimulus (the conditioned stimulus, or cs) is paired with an unconditioned stimulus (or us). The result is that the conditioned stimulus begins to elicit a conditioned response (cr). Classical conditioning is nowadays considered important as both a behavioral phenomenon and as a method to study simple associative learning. Conditioned compensatory response: in classical conditioning, a conditioned response that opposes, rather than is the same as, the unconditioned response. It functions to reduce the strength of the unconditioned response. Often seen in conditioning when drugs are used as unconditioned stimuli.