PSYCO104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ivan Pavlov, Dishabituation, Learning

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Karsten Loepelmann

Document Summary

Learning a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities (must measure it by actual changes in performance). Learning makes it possible for us to adapt to our environment. Culture = human-made part of our environment, so culture impacts what we learn. Learning change in behaviour, ability, or knowledge that results from experience. Associative learning change that results from experience that leads us to link stimuli or events together. Studies how stimuli (meat powder and footsteps) became associated with each other. Dog in a room / rang bell and presented food. / measured dog"s salivation to food and bell. Principles of classical conditioning: -sensitization, -habituation, -dishabituation, -acquisition, -extinction, -spontaneous recovery, -stimulus. generalization. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without any previous learning e. g. food. Unconditioned response (ucr) reflexive response automatically elicited by a certain stimulus, with no prior learning e. g. salivation.