PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Rebar, Reward System, Classical Conditioning

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

Document Summary

Learning - a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Conditioning - involves learning associations between events that occur in an organism s environment. Learning is de ned as a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge due to experience. Classical conditioning explains how a neutral stimulus can acquire the capacity to elicit a response originally elicited by another stimulus. This kind of conditioning was originally described by ivan pavlov, who conditioned dogs to salivate in response to the sound of a tone. In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus (ucs) is a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. The unconditioned response (ucr) is an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. The conditioned stimulus (cs) is a previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity to elicit a conditioned response. The conditioned response (cr) is a learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus.