PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: The Automatic, Amygdala, Operant Conditioning Chamber

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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour, knowledge, capability, or attitude that is acquired through experience and cannot be attributed to illness, injury, or maturation. Is one of the simplest forms of learning. Powerful effect on our attitudes, likes and dislikes, and emotional responses. In classical conditioning, an association is learned between one stimulus and another. Stimulus is any event or object in the environment to which an organism responds: we have learned to respond in specific ways to a variety of words and symbols; Example, santa clause, montreal canadians; these are just sounds and symbols but they tend to evoke strong emotional responses because of their associations. Ivan pavlov directed research in physiology at the institute of experimental medicine in st. An experimenter observed the dog through a one-way mirror and by remote control presented the dog with food and other conditioning stimuli. A tube carried the saliva from the dog"s mouth into a container where it was measured.

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