PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Study of learning important to the history of psych. Learning refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge due to experience. Phobias are irrational fears of situations or particular objects. Conditioning involves the creation of learning associations between events that occur in the environment of an organism. Classical conditioning is a form of learning where a previously neutral stimulus is able to evoke a response that was originally evoked by a different stimulus. Explains reflexive responding that is controlled by a stimuli that precede the response (consequences) The unconditioned stimulus (ucs) is a stimulus that stirs up an unconditioned response without previously being conditioned. The unconditioned response (ucr) is an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning (natural response. The conditioned stimulus (cs) is a previously neutral stimulus that has, because of conditioning, is able to evoke a conditioned response.