PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Toilet Training, Operant Conditioning
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Learning is a possess by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Ivan pavlov (1849-1936) is a russian psychologist who studied digestion using dogs as a model species for his experiment. Pavlovian/ classical conditioning is a form of associative learning in which organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus(sound) which a biologically relevant stimulus (food) which results in a change in the response to the previously neutral stimulus(salvation) Unconditioned stimulus (us) is a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning (dogs drooling or not having to learn how to eat because they are born with it) Unconditioned response (ur) is a reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus (hunger, expression of pain, drooling) Conditioned stimulus (cs), a once-neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with unconditioned stimulus (smell of food)
