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Change in behavior resulting from experience
Learning
Some behavior change requires biological development as well as experience
Maturation vs Learning
Behavior change
Walking
Talking
Adult sexual behavior
Relatively simple forms of learning
Habituation
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
More complex kinds of learning
Learning calculus
Learning the history of the Civil war
Classical conditioning
Pavlov’s Dogs
He originally studied the physiology of salivation which he won the Nobel Prize
Pavlov
Classical conditioning is also known as
Pavlovian conditioning
Basic paradigm of classical conditioning
Formerly neutral stimulus (CS) paired with another stimulus (US) that automatically produces a response (CR)
An adaptive change in behavior that results from experience
Learning
Formerly neutral stimulus
Conditioned stimulus ex: a bell
Unconditioned stimulus
Food
Conditioned response
Salivation
After repeated pairing, the neutral stimulus () will elicit a response similar to the unconditioned response ()
The bell
The heel will produce a response of salivation
The learned response to the bell
Conditioned response
US
Unconditioned stimulus
CS
Conditioned stimulus
UR
Unconditioned response
CR
Conditioned response
Examples of classical conditioning
Learning to feel upset at the the sight of flashing police lights in your rear view mirror
Learning to feel anxiety when you hear the sounds at the dentist’s office
Learning sexual arousal to objects that have been associated with sexual arousal in the past
Feeling tender emotions when you hear a song that was associated with your first romance
A new mother whose breasts start to produce milk when she heard her baby’s cry
Learning to feel emotional arousal to certain words
The famous case of “little Albert”
Little Albert
Learning fear
They believed traditionally that responses that can be classically conditioned are involuntarily responses
Psychogists
Involuntary responses
Heart rate changes Gastric motility Sweating Eye blinks Sexual arousal
Voluntary responses are molded through their rewarding and punishing consequences
Operant conditioning