PS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Little Albert Experiment, Piggy Bank, Fear Conditioning
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Inferred from behavior & cannot directly be observed. Example: memorizing a speech, but until speech is given there is no outward sign of this new learning. Measure change in behavioural responses to study learning. Responding to our environment: three types of responses to stimuli & learning. Inborn patterns of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli. A relatively permanent change in behaviour or the capacity for the behaviour that occurs due to experience. Experiences that lead us to link to or more stimuli together. Cringing at dental drill because you connect it to the pain that drill caused you in past. Learning following repeated exposure to single stimulus/event = permanent change in response. First time sleeping in new house = unfamiliar sounds, but few nights later you are able to ignore sounds & sleep. Learned not to associate those sounds with meaning. Decrease attention to stimulus after repeated stimulus presentation.
