PSY100Y5 Chapter 6: Psychology Chapter 6.docx
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Learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience. Distinct from: drug effects (caffeine-induced jitters are not learning) Our experiments can uncover the laws of learning. These laws will apply to animals and to humans. The russian physiologist pavlov noted that reflexive salivation in dogs could be elicited by stimuli associated with feeding. Reflex: response that is reliably elicited by a stimulus. Food elicits salivation: air puff elicits eye blink. Neutral stimulus is referred to as the conditioned stimulus (cs) Cs is paired with the ucs over many trials. Eventually comes to elicit a conditioned response (cr: resembles the ucr) We are born with all different types of reflexes. Our facial expressions react to the way we feel or behave. Pavlov"s theory - he rang a bell, show the meat and they salivate, the bell turned into a condition stimulus, the unconditional stimulus is the meat. Acquisition and extinction: acquisition of classical conditioning:
