Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Noxious Stimulus, Identification Key, Ibuprofen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Learning is a process which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Habituation and sensitization: a change in behaviour that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus forms of conditioning. Classical conditioning: two stimuli become associated with each other. Eg. seeing a dog and then being bitten. Operant conditioning: associate responses with specific consequences. Eg. learn that smiling at others is followed by a friendly greet- ing. Learning is basically personal adaption to our environment. The search for mechanisms behaviourists examine the processes by which experience influences be- haviour. They assumed there are laws of learning that apply to virtually all or- ganisms so all species responds in predictable ways. Treated the organism as a blank tablet where learning experiences were inscribed. Most research was done with non humans in labs. Explained learning in terms of directly observable events and avoided speculating about an organism"s mental state (the unobservable)