PSY 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Observational Learning, Sexual Arousal, Operant Conditioning

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Dr. Shannon C. Houck

Document Summary

Learning: association: any relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that is due to past experience. Condition: operant conditioning voluntary responses, classical conditioning involuntary responses, observational learning role models. Classical condition: a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus, plays key role in shaping emotion, like fear and anxiety immune suppression, sexual arousal, eg. Classically conditioned responses: characterized as relexes and, are said to be elicited (drawn forth, automatically/voluntary. A conditioned stimulus functions as if it were an unconditioned stimulus. A form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences: b. f. skinner, skiner box, consequences shape behavior. Reinforcement v. s punishment: reinforcement: encourage behavior, positive: add pleasure, negative: moving unpleasant things, shaping, train animal, give a speech in public, punishment, positive: add unpleased, negative: move pleasure, reinforcement contingencies. Rules that determine whether response lead to the presentation of reinforcers: the cumulative recorder.