PSY 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fly Fishing, Classical Conditioning, Learning
18 Mar 2017
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Chapter overview: basic concepts and classical conditioning, operant conditioning, biological constraints on conditioning. Cognitive learning- acquire new behaviors through information and observation, observational learning. Studied digestive system; first russian nobel prize (1904) Diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (us) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (cs) (response decreases) Reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response: generalization. Tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses after the response was conditioned: discrimination. Learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus (which predicts the us) and other irrelevant stimuli (being able to tell difference between different noise and bell for the dog) Classical conditioning (video about little albert and fear of animals): pavlov"s. Classical conditioning is a basic form of learning that applies to animals and humans: 2. Pavlov demonstrated how a learning process can be studied objectively: (cid:885).
