PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychology 2
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9/21/2012 12:54:00 am: learning a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience, 3 types, classical conditioning, operating conditioning, learning by observation. Classical conditioning: 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. Acquisition in classical conditioning: acquisition initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response, cs about second before us to prepare for event. Generalization: generalization the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses, discrimination is the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus 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.
