PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: B. F. Skinner, Systematic Desensitization, Dog Food
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Research on learning has been heavily influenced by behaviourism accounts for behaviour in terms of observable acts and events, without referring to mental entities (mind, will) and conditioning involves associations between environmental stimuli and responses (classical and operant) Learning is relatively a permanent change in behaviour (or behavioural potential) due to experience. Unconditioned stimuli"s (us) the classical term for a stimulus that elicits a reflexive response in the absence of learning or event or thing that elicits a response automatically. Unconditioned response (ur) the classical-conditioning term for a reflexive response. *learning occurs when a neautral stimulis (one that does not yet produce a particular response, such as salivation) is regularely paired with an unconditioned stimulis . Ex dog bowl (neutral) food(unconditioned stim ) . dog salivating (uncondt res. ) Classical respone = bowl , neutral turns into cr. Classical conditioning, also called pavlovian or respondent conditioning.
