PS102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Phenylketonuria, Bulimia Nervosa, Sketchpad
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Also shapes personal habits, personality traits, emotional responses, and personal preferences. Learning: a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Not exclusively a human process many organisms can learn. Conditioning: 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. Phobias: are irrational fears of specific objects or situations. First he presented meat powder to the dogs, and collected their saliva. Found that they started salivation before the meat powder was presented. They would salivate in response to a clicking sound the machine made by the machine that was used to present the meat powder. First described by ivan pavlov ( aka pavlovian conditioning) So he decided to pair the meat powder w/ various stimuli.
