Chapter 6
Classical Conditioning * Learning: refers to a relatively durable change in behaviour of knowledge that is due to experience * Mild phobias are commonplace * Classical conditioning: is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus * First described by IVAN PAVLOV * Pavlovian conditioning * Conditioning comes from Pavlov’s determination to discover the “conditions” that produce this kind of learning
Pavlov’s Demonstration: “Psychic Reflexes” * Prominent Russian psychologist * Nobel prize winner on digestion * Pavlov studied the role of saliva in the digestive process of dogs, he discovered …show more content…
* Differences in STM and LTM based on the belief that they used different types on encoding and