PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Ibm Officevision

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Matadeen

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Learning: a collection of different techniques, procedures, and outcomes that change the behavior of an organism. It is the acquisition of new knowledge, skills/responses gained from experience that results in a permanent change in the learner. Key ideas: learning is based on experience, learning produces a change on the organism, changes are relatively permanent. Learning can also come in a simple nonassociative form: habituation: repeated/prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual decrease in response. Another form of simple learning: sensitization: presentation of a stimulus results in an increased response to a later stimulus, ex. people whose homes have been robbed are become more sensitive to late night noise. Pavlov"s experiment in the salivation of dogs led to the discovery of classical conditioning: happens when a neutral stimulus produces a response after its been paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response.