PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Cumulative Learning
28 Oct 2018
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Kids learn to avoid hot stoves to get hurt. A metronome would cause a dog to salivate when a dog would receive food directly after it. When an organism learns the association between a signal and an event we say that a contingent relationship has formed between the two stimuli. When a contingent relationship is learned an organism can respond to the signal before the event even occurs. Eg even seeing a lemon causes mouth to salivate because we want to neutralize the citric acid. Eg antelope will flee after a variety of cues impending doom (predators. The response that occurs after the unconditional stimulus. Paired with the unconditional stimulus to produce a learned contingency. Lemon becomes a conditioned stimulus because we had to try the lemon juice first otherwise we wouldn"t know the lemon is sour. Eg the metronome made the dog hungry after lots of trials of training it like that.
