PSY100Y5 Chapter 6: PSY Chapter 6.pdf
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Learning is any relatively durable change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. Phobias are irrational fears of specific objects or situations and are often the results of another learning process. Learning shapes personal habits, personal preferences, and emotional responses. The principles that explain learned responses in animals explain much of human learning, too. Conditioning involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. 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. First described in the 1900 by ivan pavlov prominent russian physiologist who did nobel prize-winning research on digestion. The term conditioning comes from pavlov"s determination to discover the. Pavlov was one of those who was responsible for turning psychology from research focusing on subjective accounts of experience, introspection, to a more objective, rigorous, scientific approach.
