PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Learning: any relative durable change in behaviour or knowledge due to experience. Phobias: irrational fear of specific objects or situations. Conditioning: learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. pavilion conditioning. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning (ex: meat powder) The unconditioned response (ucr) : an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. (ex: meat powder = salivation. ) Conditioned stimulus (cs): previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response. (ex: tone) Conditioned response (cr): a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning (ex: tone=salivation) Trial: in classical conditioning consists of any presentation of a stimulus or pair of stimuli.