PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Foodborne Illness, Reward System, Functional Fixedness

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Learning: relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Superstitions involves people repeating behaviour that they think will lead to a certain outcome (operant conditioning) Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations: often the result of classical conditioning. Conditioning: learning associations between events that occur in an organism s environment: a specific kind of learning. Also called pavlovian conditioning (pioneered by ivan pavlov) The term conditioning comes from pavlov s determination to discover the conditions of this kind of learning. Neutral stimulus (ns): a stimulus that does not evoke a conditioned response. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning) Conditioned stimulus (cs): a previously neutral stimulus (ns) that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr): a learned reaction to conditioned stimulus because of previous conditioning.