PSYC 1000 Chapter 20-21: Module 20 and 21

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

Document Summary

Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequence. 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. Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes 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.