PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Table Tennis, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Rebar

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Note: learning enables animals to adapt to their environments. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli, or a response and its consequences. Respondent behavior: behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Unconditioned response: in classical conditioning, the unlearned naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus, salivation when food is in the mouth. Unconditioned stimulus: in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally- naturally and automatically triggers a response. Conditioned response: in classical conditioning, the learned response to a previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: in classical an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus comes to trigger a conditional response.