PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Behaviorism, Frontal Lobe
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Basic learning processes are adaptive and reliable to automatically guide behaviour. Smell/taste of co ee triggers response, body expects ca eine: decaf, expects ca eine, no ca eine. Some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong. Perspectives change the focus of research questions and answers we seek. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experiences, biases, and heuristics. You only have access to a limited subset of reality. Learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience: deer learn people with stick dangerous > live longer, smell of food > associate taste/calories, workout routines > energy levels spike before at gym, subconcious. Behaviourism- we learn from experience: pavlov: re exive responses associate with cues. Classical conditioning: watson: interaction of environment and associated e ects. Associate environment wit learn, unaware: skinner: prediction and control of behaviour. Habituation: decrease in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus.
