PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Classical Conditioning, Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours, classical conditioning. Learn to expect and prepare for significant events: operant conditioning. Avoid acts that bring unwanted results: cognitive learning. Through language we learn things we have neither experienced or observed. Locke, hume and aristotle: we learn by association, naturally connect events that occur in a sequence. Subtle learned associations: lower marks when using red pen, support taxes for education if voting in a school. Habitual behaviour learned associations: repeat given behaviours in a given context, able to work in a healthy habit to become habitual (2 months) Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information. Whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.