PSYCH-AD 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning, Learning
10 Dec 2017
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Learning the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviours. we learn via association. You do not need to understand mental processes to understand to understand mental processes to understand learning. Theoretical position that the goal of psychology that the goal of psychology should be to study only observable behaviours and explain them through learning principles. Associative learning learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences. Stimulus any event or situation that evokes a response. Respondent behaviour behaviour that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Operant behaviour behaviour that operates on the environment, producing consequences. The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. Most research psychologists today agree with 1) but not 2) Neutral stimulus (ns) in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditoning.
