PSYCH-UA 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Response Bias, Inclusive Fitness, Classical Conditioning
8 Oct 2017
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Classical conditioning allows us to learn which stimuli signal the presence (or absence) of biologically significant events. Operant conditioning allows us to learn appropriate reactions to signals. The discipline that considers psychological and behavioral phenomena as products of natural selection. Explores the implications of darwinian theory for explaining behavior. Pointed out that learned behavior is related to survival as much as unlearned behaviors. The mechanism for these changes according to darwin is natural selection. There is natural variability in organism within a species. This natural variability is the building block of natural selection. Some of this variability is due to heredity. The organism is placed in an environment in which certain heritable traits allow for higher rates of survival. Organisms with these traits are more likely to survive (and thus reproduce) and pass on these characteristics to their offspring. Organisms without these traits are more likely to die. Pretty soon most of the species has the adaptable characteristic.
