Unit 6 AP Psychology
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UNIT 6 NOTES Learning- long lasting change in behavior due to experience (relatively permanent change in an organism?s behavior due to experience) Association- Learning to associate two events We learn by association Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence Aristotle 2000 years ago John Locke and David Hume 200 years ago Associative Learning learning that two events occur together two stimuli a response and its consequence Classical Conditioning Ivan Pavlov Studied Digestion of Dogs. Dogs would salivate before they were given food (triggered by sounds, lights etc?) Dogs must have LEARNED to salivate This is passive learning (automatic?learner does NOT have to think). First thing you need is a unconditional relationship.
