PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Scientific Modelling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Module 20: basic learning concepts and classical conditioning. Learning the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. By learning, we are able to adapt to our environments. We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain (classical conditioning) We typically learn to repeat acts that bring rewards and to avoid acts that bring unwanted results (operant conditioning) We learn new behaviors by observing events and by watching others, and through language we learn things we have neither experienced nor observed (cognitive learning) Associative learning learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) This process of learning associations is conditioning, and it takes two main forms: classical conditioning. We learn to associate two stimuli and therefore to anticipate events. A stimulus is any event or situation that evokes a response.