PSYC 2510 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Mirror Neuron

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2510
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Learning evidenced by an enduring change in behavior resulting from prior experience specifically related to that behavior. Has been demonstrated in all kinds of creatures. Not every change in behavior is evidence of learning. Learning can sometimes be behaviorally silent only evident in certain circumstances. Learning involves a change in potential for doing something. Conditioning involves learning associations between events or stimuli. Classical conditioning (cc) a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response it did not elicit before. Discovered cc accidentally through his research ( psychic reflexes ) Unconditioned stimulus produces and unconditioned response. Conditioned stimulus produces a conditioned (learned) response. The ucr and cr are often, but not always, the same behavior. Cc is regularly exploited by advertisers (tune + positive emotion associated with the product) Also at the root of some phobias. E. g. immune functioning, allergic reactions, sexual arousal. Tolerance to substances, in part, is caused by cc.