PSYC 1010 Chapter 6: Psychology 1010 Chapter 6

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience that forms new neural pathways: classical conditioning (pavlov and watson, operant conditioning (skinner, observational learning (bandura) Phobia: an irrational fear of specific object/situation, often a result of classical conditioning (an anxiety disorder) A tone (ns) is paired with the presentation of food (ucs). Conditioning fear response: an unconditioned stimulus (ex. dentist drill) that causes a. Ucr (pain) eventually makes a conditioned stimulus (sound of drill, initially ns) with a conditioned response (cringing: some phobias are nuisances; some cause more problems (ex needing to fly but fearing flying) Classical conditioning can also be paired with physiological functioning (ex immunosuppression- when drinking something (ucs) while something else caused immunosuppression, later the liquid itself caused immunosuppression) Whe(cid:374) stimuli present but not taking drugs, may cause withdrawal symptoms. When taking drugs without the stimuli present, ccr does not occur, and drugs will have stronger effect. Acquisition: the initial stage of learning something.