PSY100H1 Final: Study notes on Learning & Reward. date not accurate

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Learning: a relatively enduring in behaviour that results from experience which may benefit organisms by adapting their behaviour to their environment. Conditioning: connecting environmental stimuli with a behavioural response. classical conditioning: associating two events or stimuli : learning that the occurrence of one event will be coupled with another. Ex: if you walk in the rain, you will get wet. operant conditioning: learning that a specific behaviour leads to a particular outcome. Ex: altering an animal"s behaviour by reward & punishment*bf. s: behaviour modification: operant conditioning on humans. Couple a neutral stimulus ns (one which does not produce a response) with one that elicits an unconditioned response us(one which is not learned, are automatic) called an unconditioned stimulus. The organism will associate the neutral stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus, and will respond to it in the same way it responds to the us.