1. Mr. McCormick A.P. Psychology
Unit 6: Learning
Mr. McCormick
A.P. Psychology

2. Essential Question
How is behavior influenced by one’s environment, rewards/punishments, and social interactions?

3. Unit 6 (A): Classical Conditioning
Mr. McCormick
A.P. Psychology

4. Do-Now (Discussion) What is learning as a psychological process?
What are some ways that people and animals learn from their environments?
How can learning change one’s thoughts and behavior?

5. Learning
Learning:
A relatively permanent change in an organism’s thought and behavior due to experience

6. Associative Learning Associative Learning:
Learning that certain events occur together
Classical Conditioning:
Association of two separate stimuli
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Watson
John Garcia
Operant Conditioning:
Association of a response and its consequences
B.F. Skinner

7. Associative Learning (Create List in Journal)
Consider the following stimuli:
With what do you typically associate each stimuli?
The sight of dark clouds =
The sound of a marching band =
The taste of chicken soup =
The smell of hotdogs and hamburgers =
The feel of the warm sun on your skin =

8. Why Do We Associate?
Why do we typically associate such events with one another?
They typically occur with/as a result of one another
Natural Stimulus elicits Natural Response
(e.g. dark clouds = “rain”)

9. Associative Learning: Classical Conditioning
Learning to associate one stimulus with another

10. Associative Learning: Operant Conditioning
Learning to associate a response with a consequence

11. Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov (Behavioral Psychologist)
Example of associative learning
A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a neutral stimulus
Helps organisms anticipate events
E.g. Dark clouds (natural stimulus) elicit “rain”
E.g. Umbrellas (neutral stimulus), when paired with dark clouds (natural stimulus) elicit “rain”

12. Ivan Pavlov ( )

13. Classical Conditioning

14. Classical Conditioning
Why might psychologists be interested in studying Classical Conditioning in humans and animals?
How does Classical Conditioning promote an organism’s survival?

15. Classical Conditioning
What are some examples of things that you have been classically conditioned to respond to?
What are some examples of things that your pets have been classically conditioned to respond to?

16. Review What is Classical Conditioning?
How does it suggest that we learn?
Differentiate between the following:
Neutral Stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Unconditioned Response (UR)
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Conditioned Response (CR)

17. Homework Unit 6 Key People:
Research Study Response # 10: “Little Emotional Albert” (Pgs )
Unit 6 Quiz: “Learning”