PSY 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Operant Conditioning, Habituation, Little Albert Experiment
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Learning: a relatively enduring change in behavior or thinking that results from experience. (book 163) Habituation: when an organism gets used to/adapts to/is less responsive to a stimulus. Stimulus: an event or object that generally leads to a response (book 165) Classical conditioning: a type of learning that associates two stimuli to each other. A neutral stimulus is conditioned to elicit a specific involuntary response. Conditioning: when a nonuniversal response is established in response to a stimulus. Acquisition: the learning phase that takes place in the beginning of classical and operant conditioning. This is when two stimuli are presented to the organism. This is the thing in the beginning of the experiment you want to condition a response out of an organism. Unconditioned stimulus (us): a stimulus that triggers an automatic response. Conditioned stimulus (cs): previously the neutral stimulus, the cs is the stimulus after conditioning. It now prompts an organism to exhibit a certain behavior.
