PSYC 1115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-8: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
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Associative learning the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors. learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events. Behaviorism: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2). Neutral stimulus (ns): in classical conditioning, in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Pavlov"s classic experiment pavlov presented a neutral stimulus (a tone) just before an unconditioned stimulus (food in mouth). The neutral stimulus then became a conditioned stimulus, producing a conditioned response. In operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response.
