PSYC 1000 - Tulane - Chapter 7 – Rollins
Exam – Questions and answers
Learning - -A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge due to
experience
- Area of psychology learning is associated with - -Closely associated with
behavioral psychology
- Relationship between genetic/biological control of behavior and the
capacity for learning - -Organisms with a greater capacity for learning are
typically less controlled by biology and more flexible in their behavior
- Associative learning - -Learning that certain events occur together.
Types: classical and operant conditioning
- Classical conditioning - -Simple: Type of learning where an organism
learns to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events.
Complex: Neutral stimulus acquires ability to produce a response through
association with a stimulus that produces a similar response
- Components of classical conditioning - -- Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
- Unconditioned response (UCR)
- Conditioned stimulus (CS)
- Conditioned response (CR)
- Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) - -Stimulus that produces response without
any learning
- Unconditioned response (UCR) - -Naturally occurring response to the UCS
- Conditioned stimulus (CS) - -Acquires the ability to produce a response as
a result of being paired with the UCS
- Conditioned response (CR) - -Learned response triggered by the CS
- CR and UCR are often the same or similar
- Acquisition - -- Process by which a CS acquires the ability to produce a CR
- Happens by the repeated occurrence of the association between CS and
UCS
- Timing is important: CS must come before the UCS to create a predictive
relationship
Exam – Questions and answers
Learning - -A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge due to
experience
- Area of psychology learning is associated with - -Closely associated with
behavioral psychology
- Relationship between genetic/biological control of behavior and the
capacity for learning - -Organisms with a greater capacity for learning are
typically less controlled by biology and more flexible in their behavior
- Associative learning - -Learning that certain events occur together.
Types: classical and operant conditioning
- Classical conditioning - -Simple: Type of learning where an organism
learns to associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events.
Complex: Neutral stimulus acquires ability to produce a response through
association with a stimulus that produces a similar response
- Components of classical conditioning - -- Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
- Unconditioned response (UCR)
- Conditioned stimulus (CS)
- Conditioned response (CR)
- Unconditioned stimulus (UCS) - -Stimulus that produces response without
any learning
- Unconditioned response (UCR) - -Naturally occurring response to the UCS
- Conditioned stimulus (CS) - -Acquires the ability to produce a response as
a result of being paired with the UCS
- Conditioned response (CR) - -Learned response triggered by the CS
- CR and UCR are often the same or similar
- Acquisition - -- Process by which a CS acquires the ability to produce a CR
- Happens by the repeated occurrence of the association between CS and
UCS
- Timing is important: CS must come before the UCS to create a predictive
relationship
