PSY 1305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Learning
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Learning: relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. 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) Classical conditioning: we learn to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. Operant conditioning: we learn to associate a response (our behavior) and its consequence and thus to repeat acts follow by good results and avoid acts followed by bad results. Observational learning: we learn from others" experiences and examples. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus. Behaviorism: the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with objective science but not reference to mental processes.
