PSYS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 100
• Professor: Biner

Document Summary

Adaptability: capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with changing circumstances. Learning: process of acquiring new & relatively enduring information or behaviors. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together; events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response & its consequences (operant conditioning) Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Cognitive learning: acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. Classical conditioning: type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli. Behaviorism: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes; most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2) Neutral stimulus (ns): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning. Unconditioned response (ur): in classical conditioning, an unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus. Unconditioned stimulus (us): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that unconditionally.