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

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Through experience we learn to think, act, and feel in ways that contribute richly to our individual identity. Learning is a process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour: measured by actual changes in behaviour. Habituation and sensitization: change in behaviour that results from repeated exposure to a single stimulus. Classical conditioning: when two stimuli becomes associated with each other. Operant conditioning: learn to associate responses with specific consequences. Observational learning: learn to watch others behave. Learning is the process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Habituation is the decrease in strength of response to a repeated stimulus. Learning not to respond to uneventful familiar stimuli. Organisms conserve energy and attend to other more important stimuli. Sensory adaptation is the decreased sensory response to a continuously present stimuli. Increase in strength of response to a repeated stimulus. Found across a wide range of species.