PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Flight Controller, Behaviorism
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Learning: a process by which behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Cognitive learning: reading, listening and taking tests in order to acquire new information. Ivan pavlov russian physiologist noticed that as they prepared. Dogs for procedures, even before any meat powder was presented, Food, then perhaps the salivary response can also be learned. Pavlov studied digestion using dogs as a model species for his experiments. Noticed that dogs would start salivating before they even started procedures and took out dog powder. Began conducting experiments where he presented a sound from a metronome and then presented meat to dogs which eventually resulted in the the dogs salivating to the sound even if food wasn"t presented. Classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning): learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus (bell) elicits a response that was originally caused by another stimulus (bell causes salivation whereas food used to)
