Behaviourism
Learning is a permanent change in our behaviour knowledge an attitude that is acquired through
experience.
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING- Also called respondent conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning.
explaining autonomic, involuntary emotional responses. Make connection with a past
experience. The Organism does not learn a new response, I just make an old existing response
into a new stimulus.
This is the simplest form of learning and in this case an association is learned between one stimulus
and another, a stimulus is any event in the environment to which an Organism responds.
- Robert rescorla, the most important element is whether the condition stimulus provides
information that enables the Organism to reliably predict the occurrence of the conditioned
stimulus.
- Research suggests that the inability to acquire classically conditioned responses maybe you want
the first sign of Alzheimer's disease and may appear prior to any memory loss.
- Environmental cues associated with the setting can act as conditioned stimuli to become
associated with the unconditioned stimulus.
The elements and processes
Reflexes are involuntary responses to a stimulus and there are two kinds of reflexes:
1- Conditioned, learned
2- Unconditioned, unlearned, they are built into the nervous system Like salvation.
Extinction is when a conditioned response is gradually inhibiting or suppressing.
Spontaneous recovery is weaker and shorter than the original.
Four factors that influence classical conditioning:
The number of pairings of the condition stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus
The intensity of the unconditioned stimulus
How reliably the condition stimulus predicts the unconditioned stimulus
The temporal relationship between the condition stimulus and unconditioned stimulus
The ideal time between the presentation of the condition and the unconditioned stimulus is about half a
second.
Although age itself may not impact learning age in fact affect the optimal time interval for learning to
occur.
Pavlov’s dog functional analysis.
Neutral stimulus- bell. only neutral before learning.
Unconditioned stimulus presence of food- unconditioned response salivate.
Conditioned (learned) stimulus bell - conditioned response salivate.
!!Warning!!:
unconditional and conditional response is the same.
The neutral and conditional are the same.
