PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reinforcement, Observational Learning, Latent Learning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

A more or less permanent change in behavior or behavioral potential that result from experience (learning forgetting re-learning: origin of learning theory. Rene descartes (nativist): claim that we were born the way we are and life experience play little or no role in shaping our behavior. Thomas hobbes & john locke (empiricist): claims that humans are born with no ideas or knowledge of behavior, they learn through experience: response: behavioral reaction to stimulus, pavlov"s experiment. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): (the stimulus that evokes the behavioral response of interest that prior to any learning ) --- Usc produces---unconditioned response (ucr): the reflexive response to the presentation of the unconditioned stimulus Neutral stimulus: stimulus that didn"t elicit the response of interest. Ucr: the most effective way to produce a classical conditioned response is. Delay conditioning: occurs when there is a delay between cs and ucs.