PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Informed Consent
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Safeguarding individual rights and well being is top priority. Some risks are obvious, some more subtle. Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct (apa) Can study something you can"t on people. Focus is on avoiding unnecessary pain or suffering. Standards for humane care must be followed. About 5-7% of studies is on animals. About 90% of which are on rats and mice. A change in behavior or knowledge due to experience. Change that is driven by your genetic blueprint. Develop a new trigger for an old response. Voluntary-change frequency to get a reward/avoid punishment. Learn to make an old (biological or emotional) response to a new stimulus. Same response but now for a new reason. Cs and us must come very close together. Cs and us must be paired several times. A stimulus similar to cs elicits cr. The greater the similarity, the stronger the cr. Follows removal of us in classical conditioning.
