PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fly Fishing, Little Albert Experiment, Drug Tolerance
13
PSY100Y5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
13 documents
Document Summary
Learning relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. One of the most fundamental concepts in psychology. Conditioning learning associations between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Phobias irrational fears of specific objects or situations. Classical conditioning type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus: first demonstrated by pavlov, known as pavlovian conditioning, mainly regulates involuntary, reflexive responses. Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate when a tone was presented with meat powder. Neutral stimulus does not provide the conditioned response initially. Learned associations are formed by events in an organism"s environment. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr) unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning. Conditioned stimulus (cs) previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
