PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: The Roots, Reinforcement, Dependent And Independent Variables
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* any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. * type of learning in which stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. * classical conditioning was first described by ivan pavlov. * classical conditioning is also called the pavlovian conditioning. * superstition: are the result of obtaining a reward after engaging in some behaviour. Ivan pavlov was determined to learn what conditions produce this kind of learning. People believe that if they repeat the behaviour good luck will continue. * phobias: irrational fear of specific objects or situations, often the result of another learning process. By observing the role of saliva in dogs during the digestion process, pavlov stumble upon what he called psychic reflexes, and formulated his theory of classical conditioning. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
