PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 5
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What is learning? experience; changes your behavior and your brain observational learning: classical conditioning. Three forms of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning: occurs by association between events in our environment, our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence (ex: Learning: relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to that whole gestalt contiguity idea things that occur close in: ex: pavlov"s dogs, pavlov"s experiment: time to one another are grouped together) Watson and skinner: pavlov had been studying the secretion of stomach acids and salvation in dogs in response to the ingestion of varying amounts and kinds of food. While doing that, he observed a curious phenomenon: sometimes stomach secretions and salivation would begin before the dogs had eaten any food. Just the sight of the experimenter who normally brought the food or even the sounds of the experimenter"s footsteps, was enough to produce salivation in the dogs.
