PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Observational Learning, Reward System, Reinforcement

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Learning: relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning: learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Classic conditioning: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another response; pavlovian. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist who worked on digestion accidentally found that dogs could to conditioned to salivate to things (neutral stimulus) other than food. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): an unlearned reaction to an unconditional stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs): a previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. Conditioned response (cr): a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning. Trial in classical conditioning: any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.