PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Slot Machine, Reinforcement, Aversion Therapy
9 Dec 2015
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Learning: a relatively permanent change in behavior, or potential to respond, that results from experience: permanent: long-term, behavior: not just thoughts, but actions, experience: come from something that happened in the environment. All animals (including humans) seem to have 3 main ways of learning: (external, not internal: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning. We start with just being aware of the environment. We"ve adapted to focus attention on what is important at the time. Orienting response: automatic tendency to shift attention toward something new or surprising. Through life, we learn to associate things with each other. Examples: thunder and lightning, sirens and alert to danger/trouble, golden arches and hamburgers. Learning that things go together is very adaptive. Around 1990, russian physiologist pavlov interested in digestion. Monitored how much dogs would drool when they ate various foods. Ucs: unconditioned stimulus > ucr: unconditioned response. No learning needs to occur for a god to drool when it sees food.
