PSYC 100 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - Learning Notes

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

A process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or capabilities. If there is a reason to be aware of a sensation a behavior will be produced (aware of change) A decreased sensory response to a constant stimulus. Ex - pencil behind your ear and you forget about it afterwards. Learning to link 2 stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction. Changing behavior choices in response to consequences. Acquiring new behaviors and information through observation and information, rather than by direct experience. Increase in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus. With repeated presentation of loud tone the startle response increases in intensity. Ex - get a shock and if you get second one of same intensity you jump back more and pull hand back more quickly. Both classical and operant conditioning are called associative learning.