PSYC 2000 Chapter 5: PSYCH 2000: chapter 5 textbook notes
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Learning is a term that"s meaning is crystal clear until one has to put it into words. Learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Maturation is a change due to biology not to experience. Physiologist (a person who studies the workings of the body) Ivan pavlov pioneered the empirical study of the basic principles of a particular kind of learning (classical conditioning) Measured the amount of saliva produced by the dogs when they were fed a measured amount of food. Reflex- an unlearned, involuntary response that is not under personal control or choice. A stimulus can be defined as any object, event, or experience that causes a response which is the reaction of an organism. Food is the stimulus; saliva is the response. Classical conditioning- learning to elicit an involuntary reflex response to a stimulus other than the original. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs)- unlearned, originally, naturally occurring stimulus- leads to a reflex response.
