Learning in General Psychology

PSYCH NOTES
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER FIVE: LEARNING

LEARNING: a relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of
experience.
CONDITIONING: the systematic procedure through which associations and responses to
speci c stimuli are learned.

IVAN PAVLOV
- Russian
- 1839-1946
- Physiologist
- Behaviorist
- Learning theorist in the school go behaviorism
- Classical conditioning (pavlovian conditioning)
- Classical conditioning: a conditioning process in which a previously neutral
stimulus acquires the power to elicit the same innate produced by another stimulus.
- UNLEARNED
- Unconditioned stimulus: any stimulus that without any learning involved
automatically triggers a re exive response. (Food)

- Unconditioned response: a response elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without
prior learning. (Saliva)
- LEARNED
- Conditioned stimulus: previously neutral stimulus that comes to elicit, a
conditioned response. (Bell)

- Conditioned response: a response elicited by a previously neutral stimulus ( that
has associated with the unconditioned stimulus) (saliva)

- Extinction: occurs with repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus without
the unconditioned stimulus.
- Results in the conditioned response becoming weaker and weaker.




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