[PS 101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 53 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 101
• Professor: Michaud, S

Document Summary

Learning: a relatively permanent change in an orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)"s behavior due to experiences or practice. Learning is a biological measure- how we learn and how we store information is biological. Cognitive measure- the thought process in our mind on how/what we want to learn. Shapes our thoughts, our language, helps us become motivated, deals with our emotions, and alter/change our personality/behavior/beliefs. One needs to engage in different things in order to learn. Association learning: the certain events that occur together and we refer to this being there are 2 sti(cid:373)uli"s- response and consequence. Classical learning/conditioning: established by ivan pavlov and is a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate through stimulus; groundwork for john watson. Watso(cid:374)"s ideas had to deal (cid:449)ith the sti(cid:373)ulus i(cid:374) it"s environment; we need to know how to (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol (cid:272)hildre(cid:374), it"s ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e (cid:449)ill lear(cid:374) (cid:374)e(cid:449) ideas but more importantly how we can control behavior. John watson is a major funder for behaviorism.