SOSC 1801 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Oneword, Aphasia, Anterograde Amnesia
11 Feb 2014
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Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequence. Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others or through language. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learn to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Behaviourism: the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behaviour without reference to mental processes. Respondent behaviour: behaviour that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Neutral stimulus: a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Unconditioned response: an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers a response. Conditioned response: a learned response to a previously neutral, but now conditioned, stimulus.
