PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Module 20 basic learning concepts & classical conditioning. How do we learn? learning process of acquiring new and relatively enduring info/behaviours. By learning, we are able to adapt to our envts. We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain (classical conditioning) We learn to repeat acts that bring rewards and avoid acts that bring unwanted results (operant conditioning) We learn new behaviours by observing events and watching others, and through language we learning things we have neither experienced nor observed (cognitive learning) Classical conditioning classical conditioning type of learning; one learns to link 2 or more stimuli and anticipate events. Pavlov laid foundation for watson psych should be an objective science based on observable behaviour. Behaviourism psych should be an objective science; studies behaviour w/o reference to mental processes; most agree w/ first statement, but not the second.