Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Stimulus Control, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Latent Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Learning: is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. We measure learning by actual changes in performance. Basic learning processes are habituation and sensitization: involve a change in behaviour that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus. Two forms of conditioning: classical conditioning: occurs when two stimuli become associated with each other, operant conditioning: learn to associate our responses with specific consequences. Observation of learning considers: observational learning (learn by watching others behave) and cognition in conditioning. The search for mechanisms tablet upon which learning experiences were inscribed. Behaviourists treated the organism as a tabula rasa or blank. Cognitive and biological factors play important roles in learning. Culture has an important impact on what we learn social customs, and beliefs, to our most basic conceptions of the world and ourselves. Habituation: is a decrease in the strength of response to a. Simplest form of learning and occurs across species.