Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fetishism, Sexual Arousal, Unobservable

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Serotonin and dopamine in synapse (inhibits uptake) Destroys myelin sheath and interferes with neural connection. After chronic use (& sometimes even after one use). Delusions and loss of contact with external reality. Unobservable phenomenon aren"t necessary for an understanding of human. The change in behaviour that accumulates across generations are stored in the genes. The changes in behaviour that accumulate over a life time and are stored in the central nervous system. Remember the behaviourists: must study observable behavior. Learning occurs when you recognize that one event predicts another. Ucs (unconditioned stimulus) unlearned stimulus (food, pain, etc. ) Ucr (unconditioned response) unlearned response salivation un response to food fear as a response to pain. Cs (conditioned stimulus) learned stimulus (any stimulus you"ve learned to respond to) fish after food poisoning. Cr (conditioned response) learned response salivation in response to object paired with food fear as a response to a situation paired with pain.