PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reward System
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Learning: is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Superstitions are linked to gaining a reward after a certain beahviour. Phobias: irrational fears of specific objects or situations: resulted from classical conditioning. Conditioning: involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. *novel stimuli have the greatest potential to become conditioned stimuli. These stimuli are more likely to be noticed by an individual and stand out from other stimuli. Classical conditioning: a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another response: ex. Pavlov: made introspection more rigorous, work shows how stimuli in the external world controlled our actions and behaviours. His work is seen as a functional perspective . Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): is a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): is an unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.
