PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Reinforcement, U.S. Route 3, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Classical conditioning: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction (associative learning) Operant conditioning: changing behaviour choices in response to consequences. Cognitive (observational) learning: acquiring new behaviours and information through observation and information, rather then by direct experience. Behaviourism: started with proponents that mental life was much less important than behaviour as a foundation for psychological science (created by b. f. skinner, and j. b. watson) Neutral stimulus: a stimulus which does not trigger a response. Unconditioned stimulus and response: a stimulus which triggers a response naturally, before/without any conditioning. Conditioned stimulus: a stimulus that will trigger the learned. Conditioned response: the learned response triggered by the cs. Three key properties of classical conditioning: acquisition. The association between a ns and an us. The ur now gets triggered by a ca. For the association to be acquired the ns needs to repeatedly appear before the us: extinction.