PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Habituation, Discovery Learning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

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Chapter 6 : learning : how nurture changes us. Learning change in organisms behaviour or thought as a result of experience. Habituation process of responding less strongly over time to repeated stimuli. Not all repeated stimuli lead to habituation, only those we deem safe or okay to ignore. Sometimes exposure to the stimuli doesn"t lead to habituation, it leads to sensitization (responding more strongly over time) Classical (pavlovian) conditioning form of learning in which animals come to respond to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned stimulus ucs stimulus that elicits an automatic response. Unconditioned response ucr automatic response to a non neutral stimulus that does not need to be learned. Conditioned response cr response previously associated with a non neutral stimulus that is elicited by a neutral stimulus through conditioning. Conditioned stimulus cs initially neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a response due to association with an unconditioned stimulus.