PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Operant Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Learning a process that produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge due to past experience. Learning: definition: consider this example: a rabbit gets caught in a snare and loses a foot (experience). As a result, it runs differently (change in behavior). Fits definition but is this learning: cause of behavioral change must be an internal change, i. e. some form of memory can be implicit or explicit. Associative pathways or links are formed in cns. Learning: basic concepts: reflex/fixed action pattern, habituation, association learning: classical vs. operant conditioning. Basic concepts: habituation: habituation: the relative persistent waning of a response that results from repeated presentations of a stimulus that are not followed by any form of reinforcement. A type of association learning learn to associate stimulus with absence of reinforcement. E. g. , sounds in a new home first wake you. Then you habituate and no longer react to them (e. g. , loud fridge)