PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Learning: acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Ivan pavlov awarded the nobel prize in physiology in 1904 for salivation of dogs . Salivation of dogs: digestive process of lab animals by surgically implanting test tubes into the cheeks of dogs to measure their salivary responses to diff kinds of foods. Classical conditioning: occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response. Unconditioned response (ur) reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an. Conditioned stimulus (cs) a stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism. Conditioned response (cr) a reaction that resembles an unconditioned response but is produced by a conditioned stimulus. Acquisition: phase of classical conditioning when the cs and the us are presented together. Second-order conditioning : conditioning where the stimulus that functions as the.
