PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Edward Thorndike, Frontal Lobe, Operant Conditioning Chamber
30 Apr 2012
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Learning a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behaviour (or knowledge) due to experience. How do we learn: association, observation (learn from behaviours and experiences of others) Associative learning certain events occur together: classical conditioning two stimuli occur together (can opener = food, operant conditioning relationship between behaviour and consequence (meowing = food/reward) A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another natural stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us: a stimulus that naturally elicits a response. Unconditioned response (ur: the natural response to a stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs) or neutral stimulus (ns: an originally neutral stimulus that, through repeated pairing, will eventually elicit a response. Conditioned response (cr: a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus. The cr and the ur are the same behaviour. Responses are elicited: the response is somewhat automatic and involuntary and therefore is drawn forward.
