PSYC 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tantrum, Alarm Clock, Classical Conditioning
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A change in behavior due to experience. Why is learning important: noticing and ignoring. Ex: getting used to hearing a train come by at the same time every night. Ex: driving down a country road, you"re in a zone, and a cop siren comes by making you alert: learning what events signal. Classical conditiong - a set of procedures how people learn to associate 2 things. Automatically leads to a response without any training. Does not have to be a response that leads to a natural reflex. Observable response that is produced by the unconditioned stimulus. Ucs is repeatedly presented after the ns. The ns (tone) begins to predict the ucs (food) Ns becomes a conditioned stimulus (affects the response) Conditioned the tone to make a response in the dog; once the dog hears the tone, he knows he is getting foodcausing his mouth to water. John watson (1920) took little albert and tried to put fear in him.
