PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 5
Document Summary
Learning: learning: a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience, three types, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, learning by observation. Associative learning: associative learning: learning that certain events occur together, examples, classical conditioning: lightning and thunder, operant conditioning: studying and good grades, learning by observation: parents as role models. Classical conditioning: extinction: the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs when an. Us does not follow a cs: spontaneous recovery: the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished cr. Classical conditioning: generalization: the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the cs to elicit similar responses, discrimination: the learned ability to distinguish between a cs and other irrelevant stimuli. Extending pavlov"s understanding: cognitive processes, associating nausea with alcohol not 100% effective in treating alcoholism, biological predispositions, humans predisposed to react to taste, birds predisposed to react to sight. Pavlov"s legacy: classical conditioning is universal, pavlov showed how learning can be studied objectively.
