PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Overjustification Effect, James Olds, Free Range
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Learning involves the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Ivan pavlov was awarded for his work on the salivation of dogs. He studied the digestive processes of laboratory animals by surgically implanting test tubes into the cheecks of dogs to measure their salivary responses to different kinds of foods. His explorations into spit and drool revealed the mechanics of one form of learning which came to be called classical conditioning. When dogs were initially presented with a plate of food, they began to salivate. Unconditioned stimulus (us) something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism. Dogs salivation was called unconditioned response (us) reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus. Othing in nature would make a dog salivate to the sound of a buzzer.
