PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning
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N learning is a relatively enduring change in behavior that results from experience. N watson founded school of behaviorism based on the belief that animals and humans were born with the potential to learn anything. N behavioral responses are conditioned (view lecture notes on saliva reflex) S classical conditioning: a type of learned response that occurs when a neutral object comes to elicit a reflexive response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response. S acquisition gradual formation of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli. S extinction conditioned response is weakened when the conditioned stimuli is repeated without unconditioned stimulus. S spontaneous recovery previously extinguished response reemerges following presentation of the conditioned stimulus. S stimulus generalization occurs when stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus produce the conditioned response.
