PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Guard Dog, Dog Bite, Contiguity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Learning - the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. John locke and david hume echo aristotle"s conclusion of learning by association. Our mind"s naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Learned associations often operate subtly (red pen means errors when marking). Learned associations also feed our habitual behaviours (as we repeat behaviours in a given context ex. eating popcorn in the movies). Habits can take 66 days to form. Associative learning - learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning). Stimulus 1: lightning + stimulus 2: thunder = response: startled reaction, wincing. Stimulus: we see lightning > response: anticipation of loud noise; wincing. Classical conditioning: we learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. Stimulus - any event or situation that evoked a response.