PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Latent Learning, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Model
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Preparedness (martin seligman): through evolution, animals are biologically prewired to easily learn behaviors related to their survival as a species. Constraints on classical conditioning: learned taste aversions. Conditioned taste aversion: the taste and smell of the food disgusts and repulses us. John garcia challenged two basic assumptions of classical conditioning: 1) cs- Ucs time interval had to be relatively short 2) biological preparedness influences learned aversionsconstraints on operant conditioning. Instinctive drift: a conditioned response drifts back toward instinctive behavior. Dopamine plays a key role in regulating the ability to experience reward. Infants who regularly receive stimulating touch lessons develop more mature movement patterns, are less stressed, and perform better on cognitive tests than infants who don"t. Cognitive model of learning (s-o-r): between stimulus and response, there"s the organism"s mental representation of the world. Insight: the sudden perception of a useful relationship that helps to solve a problem (german wolfgang kohler challenged thorndike by experim.
