U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2: Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Model, The Strongest

• School: WUSTL
• Department: Psychology
• Course: U09 Psych 100
• Professor: Rice Heather, Duchek, Carpenter

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Conditioning the process that connects environmental stimuli to behavior. 2 types of associative learning: classical and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning) - 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: learn that one event predicts another. Next is the test trials the metronome sound is presented alone and the salivary reflex is measured: pavlov found that under these conditions, the sound of the metronome on its own produced salivation. Unconditioned response (ur) - a response that does not have to be learned, such as a reflex: it is unlearned; occurs w/o prior training and is an automatic behavior, the salivation elicited by food. Unconditioned stimulus (us) a stimulus that elicits a response, such as a reflex, without any prior learning: the food.