PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Frontal Lobe, Long-Term Potentiation, Classical Conditioning
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Psychology- learning and drug effects learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience behaviourism: we learn from experience. John watson: prediction and control of behaviour. Skinner: studied things that you choose to do. Types of learning: non-associative learning: intro about one external stimulus. Habituation: decrease in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus: no point in paying attention to something, so you would ignore it. Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus: may be rewarding and are not concerned with any thing that may come with it, associative learning: how two or more pieces of info are related. Classical conditioning: learn that two stimuli go together. Operant conditioning: learn that a behaviour leads to a particular outcome. *the brain changes during learning long term potentiation(ltp) There was a very high drug addiction rate. Learning allows for homeostasis: body is constantly making corrections, signinaling to the body that something is about to happen.
