Chapter 6 Flashcards
what is learning?
permanent change in behavior due to an experience
what is associative learning?
learning that certain events occur together
- genetically programmed behaviors
what is tabula rasa?
we start as a blank slate
- ex. are babies
- locke
what is habituation?
learning not to respond to repeated stimuli
what is the mere exposure effect?
learn a preference for stimuli
- more often you hear/smell/see something the faster you learn it
what is classical conditioning?
an organism comes to associate stimuli
- automatic response
- produces stimuli that causes unconditional stimuli
- pavlov
what is unconditional stimulus?
naturally and automatic triggers a response
- ex. food in the mouth
what is conditioned response?
learned response to previously neutral conditioned stimulus
what is a conditioned stimulus?
originally irrelevant stimulus that after association with unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response
