PSY 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-10: Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning, Frontal Lobe
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A- learning is acquiring new knowledge and gaining the understanding of new information. Associative learning links events such as 2 stimuli or a response and consequence that occurs closely together. Respondent behavior associates stimuli that are uncontrollable to an automatic response and is learned by classical conditioning. Operant behaviors are learned through operant conditioning which associates a response to its consequences. Observational learning is one kind of cognitive learning (gaining information mentally/cognitively) that teaches us behaviors through observations or other people"s experiences. First demonstrated by ivan pavlov, classical conditioning begins with an unconditional stimulus (us) which triggers an unconditional response (ur). A neutral stimulus (ns) becomes a conditional stimulus (cs) when it is associated with the us which both now triggers a conditional response (cr). He associated a bell/tone (cs) with food (us) to cause a dog to salivate (ur and cr). Acquisition links a neutral stimulus to the unconditional stimulus to trigger a conditional response (ns->us->cr).
