PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Behaviorism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Learning: process in which behaviour or knowledge is changed over time as a result of experience. Associative learning: someone learns an association between two stimuli. Studied digestion using dogs; he collected saliva and gastric secretions from the dogs when they received their food. Observation: dogs would start drooling even before they got their meat. Used a metronome to create sound, then gave the dogs food. After setting the ticking with the food, he realized that the sound can prompt the dog to drool. Classical learning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus prompts a response caused by another stimulus. As a result from classical learning, the dogs would produce saliva just by hearing the metronome. Behaviourism: line of inquiry focused on observable behaviours. Unconditional stimulus: stimulus that causes a reflex without learning. Unconditional response: reflexive, unlearned reaction due to an unconditioned stimulus.