PSYC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning, Learning

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Andrew J. Wrobel

Document Summary

Sea turtles leave nest as soon as they hatch know what to do. Birds build nests + migrate when winter approaches. Instincts and reflexes are innate behaviors born with it. Reflexes: motor or neural reaction to stimulus in environment. Aging and change of seasons reflexes/instincts help adapt to environment. Associative learning: occurs when organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together. Two forms classical and operant conditioning. Learning from humans and animals come from observational learning. Physiologist: a biologist who studies the functions and vital processes of living organisms. Classical conditioning: learn to associate stimuli and anticipate events. Pavlov implanted tubes inside dogs cheeks to collect saliva. Measured amount of saliva produces for different foods. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): stimulus that makes reflexive response in organism. Unconditioned response (ucr): natural; unlearned reaction to stimulus. Neutral stimulus (ns): stimulus that does not naturally make a response. Bell (ns) meat (ucs) saliva (ucr)