PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Lightning
12 Apr 2018
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Learning: the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviours. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Respondent behaviour: behaviour that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. We associate stimuli we cannot control with respondent behaviour. Classical conditioning: we learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. We learn that a ash of lightning signals an impending crack of thunder. So when lightning ashes nearby, we brace ourselves. Neutral stimulus (ns): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Unconditioned response (ur): in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response (such as salivation) to an unconditioned stimulus (such as food in the mouth) Unconditioned stimulus (us): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally naturally and automatically triggers an unconditional response (ur).
