PSY100H1 Lecture : PSYCH NOTES CH. 6.doc

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Irrational fears of specific objects or situations o: often the result of another learning process termed classical conditioning, relatively common. Learning: refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour of knowledge that is due to experience, one of the most fundamental concepts in all of psychology o. Involves learning associations 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, the process was first described around 1900 by ivan pavlov. Sometimes called pavolian conditioning in tribute to him. Pavlov was studying the role of saliva in the digestive process of dogs when he stumbled onto what he called psychic reflexes . His subjects were dogs restrained in harness in an experimental chamber. Their saliva was collected by means of a surgically implanted tube in the salivary gland.

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