PSYC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Learning, Fear Conditioning, Reinforcement

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Ly Agnes

Document Summary

Learning- a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Non-associative learning- response to something in the environment or response to repeated exposure to a stimulus or event: habituation- when our behavior response to a stimulus decreases after repeated exposure. You learn that the stimulus is not important: sensitization- when our behavior response to a stimulus increases after exposure. Threatening or painful stimuli are the most common. When you smell something burning and you focus more attention to the sense. Observational learning- acquiring or changing behavior after exposure to another person preforming that behavior. Classical conditioning/pavlovian conditioning- a type of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response when it is associated with a stimulus that already produces that response. Unconditioned response- a response that does not have to be learned: ex: reflexes. Unconditioned stimulus- a stimulus that causes a response: ex: food causes us to salivate.