PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes -Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Orienting Response
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Learning is an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Learning is not observed but is inferred by changes in behaviour. Performance is the behavioural change produced by the internal change. Types of learning; habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Habituation if a noise occurs it makes us have a reaction to it (orienting response) however if the noise continuously occurs we stop paying attention to it. Habituation is learning not to respond to unimportant events. The reason why this occurs is an unnecessary reaction only causes an organism to waste energy and time. Experiments that back up habituation was conducted by humphrey on snails and. Long-term habituation occurs in animals, which have complex nervous systems. Classical conditioning learning about the conditions that a specific event will occur. Ivan pavlov (russian physiologist) discovered classical conditioning in 1904. He attempted to study the salivary process of using dogs.
