PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cognitive Map, Observational Learning, Amygdala
1 May 2014
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Learning - is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Superstitions are often the result of obtaining a reward after engaging in some behaviour. Type of learning known as operant conditioning. Phobias - intense fears such as flying, snakes, etc. Phobias can be treated but also sometimes come to an abrupt end on their own. Learning is not just a human process, it is pervasive in the animal kingdom. The principles that explain learned responses in animals explain much of human learning. Conditioning - involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning - is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another experience. Described around 1900 by ivan pavlov, thus often called pavlovian conditioning. Pavlov changed psychology research from research focussing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection, to a more objective, rigorous, scientific approach.
