PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Mary Cover Jones, Aspirin, Latent Learning
10 Dec 2012
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Learning: process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Experience can provide immediate knowledge, but learning is measured by changes in performance. Environment influences adaptation in two major ways: species adaptation: occur through natural-selection: personal adaptation: occurs through learning. Habituation : decrease in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus (p. 212) If learn to not to respond to uneventful stimuli, can conserve energy and attend to other stimuli. Learning trial: each pairing of cs with ucr. Learn to associate two stimuli, such that one stimuli comes to elicit a response that originally was elicited only by the other stimuli. Was discovered in the late 1860"s by ivan pavlov (1849-1936) Noticed that the dogs would start to salivate when they saw them, the dish, the food, etc. Food is unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without prior learning.
