PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Learning, Observational Learning

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

Document Summary

Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information and behaviours. Associative learning: leaning that certain events occur together. The events may be two different stimuli, such as in classical conditioning, or a response and its consequence, such as in operant conditioning. Stimuli: any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning: the gaining of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others or through different forms of communication (oral, reading, writing) Jonh locke, david hume both agreed with aristotle"s conclusion of how we learn by association. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in a sequence. Learn associations are why we have certain habits- certain behaviours become associated with certain situations. ie. situation: movie theatre habit: eating popcorn. Behaviorism: the view that psychology should be an objective science (science that looks at all viewpoints that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. (most psychologist agree with only the objective part today)