PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Drug Tolerance, Sexual Arousal, Nucleus Accumbens

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Learning a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Cognitive learning reading, listening and taking tests. Associative learning process by which an association between two stimuli or a behavior and a stimulus is learned. Classical conditioning (pavlov) learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus (aka one event causes another) Behaviourism a line of inquiry focused on observable behaviours rather than unobservable mental events. Unconditioned stimulus (us) a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Unconditioned response (ur) reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus (cs) a once-neutral stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it has a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response (cr) the learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. Acquisition the initial phase of learning in which a response is established.