PSY100H1 Chapter 6: Chapter 6.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Learning: and enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. A benefir from experience resulting in being better adapted to enviroment. Association develop through conditioning, a process in which stimuli and behavioral response become connected. Two types of conditioning: classical: two types of events go together. (scary movie and heart beating fast, operant: behavior leads to an outcome (studying=better grades) John watson and behaviorism; blank slate of people. Pavilovs salivary experiment looked at the learned response of dogs to salivate when they expected food. Neutral stimulus provided aswell as the stimulus that provides the reflex. Conditiong trial is the combination of these two stimuli, and is repeated in trials, and after a while, the neutral stimuli resulted in exacting the same response as the reflex stimuli as the dog was classically conditioned In the case of the food setting off salivation, that was a unconditioned response (ur). And the conditioned response is the salivation one the cs is used.