PSYC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Habituation

• School: Douglas College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Roger Tweed

Document Summary

Learning gaining skills/knowledge/responses, from experience resulting in relatively permanent changes in behaviour: learning is based on experience, learning produces changes in the organism, these changes are relatively permanent. Learning can also occur in much simpler, non-associative forms like habituation a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in gradual reduction in responding: ex. If someone has had a break in in their house they may be more sensitive to late night sounds outside that they may previously not have heard. Learning & memory: memory taking in and retrieving information. Learning changes in behaviour acquired from experience. Classical conditioning: classical conditioning when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response, a pairing that causes a response, pavlov studied salivation in dogs. Classical conditioning stages: beginning neutral stimulus (bell), unconditioned stimulus (us) unconditioned response (ur, conditioning stage acquisition = neutral stimulus (bell) + unconditioned stimulus (ghost)