PSYCO104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lightning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Social Learning Theory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Amelia Shi

Document Summary

Learning - a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities due to experience. Some behaviourists measure learning by changes in. Stimulus - event that evokes specific functional reaction. Response - functional reaction evoked by an event. Associative learning - linking 2 events that are close together. Associate 2 stimuli and thus anticipate events (e. g. thunder after lightning) Found it was a natural response with no learning involved. Noticed dogs salivated with specific sounds (e. g. dinner bell) Un-coordinated stimulus/ucs - triggers reflexive or innate response without prior learning (natural) Un-coordinated response/ucr - reflexive or innate response without prior learning (natural) Conditioned stimulus/cs - through associative learning , elicit a response. Conditioned response/cr - response elicited from associative learning (e. g. ucs - timbits, ucr - hunger, cs - timbits box, cr - hunger) Forward short delay - cs still present when ucs presented , optimal learning (bell rings, with food given while it is still ringing)