PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Contiguity, Drug Tolerance

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Phobias are irrational fears of specific objects or situations and are often a result from another learning process called classical conditioning. Learning refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. One of the most fundamental concepts in psych. Learning includes the acquisition of knowledge and skills but also shapes personal habits, personality traits, and personal preferences. Conditioning involves learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Conditioning comes from pavlov"s determination to discover the conditions that produce this kind of learning. He was studying the role of saliva in the digestive process of dogs when he stumbled onto the psychic reflexes . He would present meat powder and collect the resulting saliva.