PSYC 1001 : Psych Text Notes Chapter 6.docx
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Learning includes the acquisition of knowledge and skills as well as shaping personal habits nail biting personality traits shyness emotional responses fear of storms. Classical conditioning: classical conditioning a type of learning which stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus, it is sometimes known as pavlovian conditioning. If pavlov was to continuously present only the tone to a previously conditioned dog it would gradually lose its ability to trigger salivation: the strength of the conditioned bond determines how long the process of extinction will take. If you condition a dog to salivate in response to a sound by pairing it with the meat powder, once the tone is firmly established as a cs then you can pair the tone with a red light. Asking for a date, people usually only do this after receiving may positive signals such as eye contact etc. that indicate a positive response.
