Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Habituation, Observational Learning, Exposure Therapy

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

Document Summary

Learning = process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organisms behaviour or capabilities. Things to know about chapter 7: habituation and sensitization learning processes, classical and operant conditioning, observational learning, cognition in condition. Learning is a personal journey of adapting to ever-changing circumstances. Habituation is a decrease in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus: simplest form of learning in cns, different from sensory adaptation decreased sensory response. Classical conditioning = organism learns to associate 2 stimulus so that one comes to produce a response that originally was produced only by the other one: e. g. song and pleasurable event. Acquisition period of time when response is being learned. May be a neutral stimulus at first. Unconditioned response/stimulus (ucs/ucr) something that doesn"t need to be learned: e. g. Conditioned stimulus/response needs to be learned by association to create desired response: e. g. tone given creates salivation food isn"t even needed to make dog salivate.