APSC 1113 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Consumerism, Habituation

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Applied Science
• Course: APSC 1113
• Professor: Mehta Rick

Document Summary

Durable change in behaviour that arises because of experience. Allows us to adapt to our environment. Types of learning: orientation, habituation, and sensitization. Recognizing and reacting to important events: classical conditioning. Learning what stimuli signal other events: operant conditioning. Learning about the consequences of behaviour: latent learning. Learning that is not observable when it occurs: observational and vicarious learning. Innate ability to shift attention to new or surprising events: bias towards novelty. Novel stimuli and events are potentially important: ex hear a noise while in bed. Learn to ignore thigns that are irrelevant: ex watch/glasses, lottery winners & paraplegics vs happiness, consumerism vs happiness. How to get around it: pacing yourself. Ver(cid:455) i(cid:374)te(cid:374)se sti(cid:373)ulus respo(cid:374)ses e(cid:454) fire alar(cid:373) Learning associations between stimuli and events: sky & weather, boss"s (cid:373)ood & t(cid:455)pe of da(cid:455) (cid:455)ou"ll have. Stimulus elicits response automatically: ucr (unconditioned response) Response that occurs automatically: cs (conditioned stimulus)