PSYC 15065G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Brain Records, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Sheridan College
• Department: Faculty of Applied Health and Community Studies
• Course: PSYC 15065G
• Professor: Ruth Martin

Document Summary

Any relative permanent change in behavior brought about either by experience practice is called learning. When someone learns something, a part of their brain records it. Maturation is due to experience, not due to learning. Classical conditioning: learning to make an involuntary response to a stimulus other than the natural stimulus that produces a reflex. Unconditioned stimulus: naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary response. Unconditioned response: an involuntary response due to a naturally occurring stimulus. Neutral stimulus: a stimulus that has no effect on the response. Conditioned stimulus: stimulus that becomes able to produce a learned reflex response. Conditioned response: a learned reflex response to a conditioned stimulus. Extinction is the disappearance of a learned response with the removing of an unconditioned stimulus. Once someone learns something, its impossible to unlearn it. Although, people can learn new things that can replace it. The reappearance of a learned response after extinction is called spontaneous recovery.