learning (chapter 6)

Question 1

Know how psychologists define learning and how it differs from maturation.

Answer 1

is the process by which life experience causes change in the behavior or thinking of an organism. Maturation is nurture where you come from

Question 2

● Know how learning fits into nature–nurture debate.

Answer 2

Learning is the nurture side maturation is nature

Question 3

● Know what classical conditioning is and how it occurs in your life (e.g., advertising, acquisition and treatment of phobias, placebos, etc.).

Answer 3

Form of learning in which people make a connection between 2 stimuli that have occurred. Such that one predicts the other.

Question 4

Know the components of classical conditioning (unconditioned stimulus, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned response, neutral stimulus, etc.).

Answer 4

Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that causes automatic response
Conditioned stimulus: neutral stimulus that now causes a reaction
Unconditioned response: natural reaction
Conditioned response: response acquired through learning
Neutral stimulus: stimulus that causes no response

Question 5

● Know how we generalize or discriminate what we learn.

Answer 5

Generalization: process by which stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus cause the same response.
Discrimination: process by which stimuli that is different from conditioned stimulus fail to cause the same response