PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Classical Conditioning, Learning, Operant Conditioning
11 Dec 2013
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Learning is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Associative learning is learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning). Process of learning associations is conditioning and it takes two main forms: Classical conditioning learn to associate two stimuli ant thus to anticipate events. Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Operant conditioning learn to associate a response (our behaviour) and its consequence. Thus we learn to repeat acts followed by good results and avoid acts followed by bad results. Conditioning is not only form of learning. Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by. Habits form when we repeat behaviours in a given context and, as a result, learn associations-often without our awareness.
