PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Learning Curve
2 Nov 2016
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Behaviorism- the position that psychology should concern itself only with what people and other animals do, and the circumstances in which they do it. Your thoughts do not cause your behavior because your environment caused your thoughts. Stimulus response psychology- the attempt to explain behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response. The greatest challenge was to explain learning. Conditioned reflexes- automatic connections between a stimulus such as food and a response such as secreting digestive juices (drooling) Transferring a response from one stimulus to another (sound preceding food, animal would drool to the sound) Classical/pavlonian conditioning- the process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli (a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response. Behavior has no effect on the outcome (presentation of cs or ucs) Pavlov gave his dogs food, and they salivated. Visceral responses- responses of the internal organs (salivation, digestion)
