PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Reinforcement, Jelly Bean, Substance Abuse

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

1: cc in the real world a)biological preparedness: is a propensity for learning particular kinds of associations over others, many human taste aversions are result of. Nervous systems form association- make you feelsick as soon as you smell/see food. Not the food themselves but our own bodies. Good for evolutoin to avoid foods that make us sick outside. 1- can be learned on a single trail , just have to eat the food once (as if light=food shown and associated just once) 2- can happen with long delays b/w stimulus and us, sick hours later (as if light=food hrs apart) With chemo, food eaten before treatment assoicated with nasue afterword. We don"t want that so we give them a single jellybean before treatment that now carries the negative association: cc in the real world a)advertising, associate positive feelings with product or negative feelings with not using the product.