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Learning

Learning
• Learning is a change in behavior as a result of experience
• Early behaviorists were protesting Structuralism
• Stimulus—Response psychology: the attempt to explain behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response
Learning
• Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Other Kinds of Learning
Behaviorism Assumptions
• Determinism: all cause and effect
• Ineffective mental explanations
• The power of the environment

Classical Conditioning
• Pavlov, Ivan
• Study started when noticed effect of “teasing” the dogs with food.
• Innate automatic connections unconditioned reflexes between a stimulus such as food and a response such as secreting digestive juices

Classical Conditioning
• Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
• Unconditioned response (UCR)
• Conditioned stimulus (CS)
• Conditioned response (CR)

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
• An s...

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