PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Coffeemaker, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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Psych 101 chapter 6 (classical condition: learning by association) Learning a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience = (1) cognitive learning acquiring and processing new information (2) associative learning - when behaviour is linked to a new stimulus. Behaviourism a line of inquiry focused on observable behaviours rather than unobservable mental events. Stimulus external event or cue that elicits a response. Unconditioned stimulus (us) stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning (ex. Unconditioned response (ur) reflexive, unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus (ex. Conditioned stimulus (cs) once-neutral* stimulus that later elicits a conditioned response because it as a history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus (ex. Conditioned response (cr) learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus (ex. Salivation but this must also be able to occur with just the bell and no meat) Moral: cr must be able to occur in presence of only ns/cs instead of just with us*