PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Free Range, Behaviorism, Cognitive Map
6 Dec 2014
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Chapter 7: learning acquisition of new knowledge, skills, responses from experience that results in relatively permanent in state of learner emphasizes 3 key ideas. General process in which repeated/prolonged exposure to stimulus results in gradual reduction in responding. Simple form of learning that occurs when presentation of stimulus leads to increased response to later stimulus. Classical conditioning: one thing leads to another type of learning that occurs when neutral stimulus produces response after being paired with stimulus that naturally produces response. Studied digestive process of lab animals by surgically implanting tests tubed into cheeks of dog to measure salivary responses to different kinds of food. Showed that dogs learned to salivate to neutral stimuli (bell/tone) after that stimulus had been associated with another stimulus that naturally evokes salivation (food) Development of classical conditioning: pavlov"s experiments setup involved cradling dogs in harness to administer foods & measure salivary response.
