PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Drug Tolerance, Reward System, Classical Conditioning
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Learning is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Phobias are irrational fears of specific objects to situations. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Responsible for turning psychology from research focusing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection, to more objective, rigorous, scientific approach. His work showed how stimuli in the external world controlled our actions and behaviour. De-emphasized the mind, and mentalistic accounts of behaviour. Showed how learning was under the influence of experience and that associations could be built up in consciousness . Role of saliva in the digestive processes of dogs. Present meat powder to a dog, dogs salivated before meat powder was presented. Auditory tone used together with meat powder -> use only auditory tone -> dogs salivated. The tone started out as a neutral stimulus.
