PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism
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Converts the perception into a construct that can be stirred within the brain. In other words, encoding is meaningful processing of information. The position that psychology should concern itself only with what people and other animals do, and the circumstances in which they do it. Stimulus-response psychology: attempt to explain behavior terms of how each stimulus triggers a response. Russian psychologist who won nobel prize for research on digestion. Stumbled upon an observation that offered a simple explanation of learning. Unconditioned reflexes- automatic connections between a stimulus and response. Classical conditioning: process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): an event that automatically elicits an. Unconditioned response (ucr): the action that the unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response elicits. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the ucs, triggers a conditioned response.
