Bell Ringer 1/27

• 1. What do you think of when you hear the word learning?

• 2. Anything we are born knowing how to do is NOT a result of learning. List some skills you did not learn, but were born with.

• 3. List a skill you posses. Briefly explain how you learned this skill.

Objectives

• You should be able to – Explain classic conditioning

– Identify the components classic conditioning; including• Unconditioned stimulus• Unconditioned response• Conditioned stimulus• Conditioned response

LearningUnit 6

Long lasting change in behavior due to experience.

Learning

• We will be studying three types of learning…– Conditioning

• Classic conditioning• Operant conditioning

– Latent learning– Observation learning

• Conditioning – a type of learning that involves stimulus – response connection– Learned association: certain events occur

together– stimulus – feature in the environment that is

detected by an organism and produces a reaction.

– response – observable reaction to a stimulus

Classical Conditioning

• Ivan Pavlov• Studied Digestion of

Dogs.• Dogs would salivate

before they were given food .

• Dogs must have LEARNED to salivate.

Classical Conditioning• automatic…learner does

NOT have to think).• First thing you need is a

automatic relationship.

• Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)- something that naturally and automatically triggers a response

• Unconditioned Response (UCR)- the unlearned, naturally occurring response to the UCS.

Classical Conditioning• Next you find a neutral stimulus (something

that by itself elicits no response).• You present the stimulus with the

Unconditioned Stimulus UCS a whole bunch of times.

Classical Conditioning

• After a while, the body begins to link together the neutral stimulus with the Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS).

Classical Conditioning• Conditioned Stimulus

(CS): an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with the UCS, comes to trigger a response.

• Conditioned Response (CR): the learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.

Bell Ringer 1/28• Use your notes on learning to fill in the blanks with

the correct word/words.• 1. We know that learning has taken place if there

is a long-lasting change in ________.

• 2. Three types of learning include ________, ________, and _________.

• 3. _________ discovered classic conditioning while studying the salivation reflex of dogs.

• 4. In classic conditioning the _____________ naturally and automatically triggers a response

Objectives

• You should be able to – Explain classic conditioning

– Identify the components classic conditioning; including• Unconditioned stimulus• Unconditioned response• Conditioned stimulus• Conditioned response

John Watson brought Classical Conditioning to psychology with his Baby Albert experiment.

Classic Conditioning

• Classic conditioning terms– Taste aversion– Extinction– Spontaneous

recovery– Generalization– Discrimination

• Use of classic conditioning in psychology– Flooding– Systematic

desensitization– Counter

conditioning