Notes for Week 2

classical conditioning n (Psychology) Psychol the alteration in responding that occurs when two stimuli are regularly paired in close succession: the response originally given to the second stimulus comes to be given to the first See also conditioned response

Paradigm-one that serves as a pattern or model.
Stimuli may acquire their capacity to elicit sexual motivational responses through basic associative learning processes such as classical conditioning
Read electronic reading on classical conditioning
Read physiotherapy-provided operant conditioning .
Film on broken brain experimental psychology, how far researcher prepared to go to get answers the last 100 years experimental psychology has endeavored to reveal the workings of the human mind. It's methods have been sometimes brutal. The study of individuals who through unfortunate events have suffered damage to their brains has implications for us all.
The cognitive approaches that emphasizes the role of thought and social experience in learning what unites these two approaches is a common philosophical ancestor: the concept of association
Aristotle proposed a set of laws of association to account for learning and memory the most important is the law of contiguity which propes that two events will become connected in the mind if they are experienced close together in time (Such as thunder and lightning). Law of similarity which states that objects that resemble each other such as two people with similar faces are likely to become associated.

Summary
Learning refers to any enduring changes in the way an organism responds based on it's experiences. Learning theories assume that experience shapes behavior that learning is adaptive and the only systematic experimentation can uncover laws of learning principles of association are fundamental to most account of learning.