Conditioning type of learning that involves stimulus-response connections Learning

Chapter 6

• Learning

Chapter Overview

• Will be some of the first Psychology information you learn in college
• Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Learned Behaviors

I. Classical Conditioning

• Definitions to know in this chapter
• Conditioning type of learning that involves stimulus-response connections
• Learning  process of learning associations between environmental stimuli and behavior responses

I. Classical Conditioning

• Classical Conditioning: a form of learning that involves the use of a stimulus to generate a specific response
• Classical conditioning can help people adapt to the environment and can help eliminate troubling fears or other behaviors

I. Classical Conditioning

• Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov pioneered research into a form of learning known as classical conditioning
• In classical conditioning, one stimulus causes a response that is usually caused by another stimulus

I. Classical Conditioning

• Pavlov’s Dogs – Famous Experiment
• Pavlov used dogs in his studies of classical conditioning
• He trained the dogs to associate the sound of a bell with food
• They learned that the sound of the bell meant food was coming
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I. Classical Conditioning

I. Classical Conditioning

I. Classical Conditioning

• Stimulus and Response
• Unconditioned stimulus: a stimulus that causes a response that is automatic, not learned
• Unconditioned response: caused by an unconditioned stimulus
• Conditioned response: a learned response to a neutral stimulus

I. Classical Conditioning

• Stimulus and Response
• Conditioned stimulus: a previously neutral stimulus that causes a conditioned response
• Conditioned Emotional Response (CER)
• Emotional responses are classically conditioned to a previously neutral stimulus
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