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

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

Document Summary

Module 20 basic learning concepts and classical. Learning: process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. Associated learning: learning that certain events occur together. Events could be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (operant conditioning) Learn to expect/prepare for significant events like food or pain; classical conditioning. Learn to repeat acts that bring rewards, avoid acts that bring unwanted results; operant conditioning. Learn new behaviors by observing events and by watching others, and through language we learn things that we haven"t actually experienced; cognitive learning. Learned association operates subtly and also feeds habitual behaviors. On average, behaviors become habitual after about 66 days. Ivan pavlov; noticed dogs salivated at the ring of a bell, anticipating food. Behaviorism: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)