Psychology 1000 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Summary Psychology frontiers and applications 5e
abdullah32 and 39352 others unlocked
111
PSYCH 1000 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
111 documents
Document Summary
Learning is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Adapting to the environment learning is a process of personal adaptationto the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Ethology focused on animal behaviour within the natural environment. Believed organisms came into the world prepared to act in certain ways. Focused on adaptive significance: how does a behaviour influence chances of survival and reproduction. Believe in instinctive behaviour called fixed action pattern: an unlearned response automatically triggered by a particular stimulus. Some fixed action patterns can be modified by experience. Cognitive theorists challenge the behaviourist assumption that learning does not involve mental processes, and cross-cultural research highlights the impact of culture on what we learn. Classical conditioning classical conditioning: an organism learns to associate two stimuli in a way that one stimulus comes to produce a response that was originally produced by the other stimulus.