PSYC 1000 Final: Psyc 1000- Complete Final Notes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

A process by which behavior or knowledge changes as a result of experience. What are the main types of learning: classical conditioning/pavolovian conditioning/associative learning: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction. How do we learn by acquiring associations? (classical conditioning) What are some of the properties of classical conditioning: acquisition: initial phase of learning in which a response is established. The association between a neural stimulus and a unconditioned stimulus. Occurs when the unconditioned response gets triggered by conditioned stimulus (now becomes a. However, the neural stimulus must appear very quickly before the unconditioned stimulus, and it must be frequent (that food is provided at the sound of a tone for example) to be consistent: extinction (& spontaneous recovery) The diminishing of a conditioned response that occurs when conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus.