PSY100H1 Chapter 13: Condition and Learning (Week 6 Reading Part 1)
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Ivan pavlov: won a nobel price for studying digestion, more famous for study pavlov"s dog . Explains why people get anxious looking at a crowded bus. Rang a bell and gave a dog its food. Dog eventually treated bell as a signal for food. When we see something, we immediately associate it to a memory, or an emotion events: classical/ pavlovian conditioning. One of the fundamental ways to learn about our world. More than a theory of learning arguably a theory of identity. Simple/ old, but still widely studied today: straightforward test of associative learning that can study more complex behaviours, classical conditioning is always occurring in our daily lives. Can help us understand normal and disordered behaviour in humans. Happens whenever neutral stimuli are associated with psychological signi cant events: unconditioned stimulus (us) Ex. the dog food in pavlov"s experiment. Ex. hot shower (us) produces pleasure (ur) Ex. loud noises (us) startling us (ur)
