Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Tabula Rasa, Aversion Therapy, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Learning is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behavior or capabilities. Classical conditioning occurs when two stimuli become associated with each other. In operant conditioning, we learn to associate our responses with specific consequences. Behaviourists: assumed that there are laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms, treated the organism as a tabula rasa upon which learning experiences were inscribed, environment and culture affect our adaptation and learning. An organism learns to associate two stimuli, such that one stimulus comes to produces a response that originally was produced only by the other stimulus. Extinction: if the cs is presented repeatedly in the absence of the ucs, the cr weakens and eventually disappears, each presentation of the cs without the ucs is called an extinction trial. Spontaneous recovery: the reappearance of a previously distinguished cr after a rest period and without new learning trials.