PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

It"s a relatively durable change in behaviour that occurs as a recall of practise ] Performing: doing what one has learned. Performing vs. learning: often people perform well because they have learned something, but it doesn"t necessarily go the other way around. Unconditioned response (ur: a response (r) that is reflexive or automatic and not under our voluntary control. Unconditioned stimulus (us: a stimulus that provokes and elicits an ur. Conditioned stimulus (cs: any stimulus that is paired with a us that eventually triggers a response. Conditioned response (cr: the response elicited by the ur. Examples: pavlov (us) food (ur) salivation. But bell presented as (cs) because of pairing with food starts as neutral but changes (cs) bell (cr) salivation: human (us) slap (ur) flinch. Howdy + slap (cs) howdy (cr) flinch. If you want classical conditioning to work, a method that one should use (due to high effectiveness: delay conditioning is the best way.