PSYB64H3 Chapter 12: Chapter 12
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Behaviour of organisms can be divided into 3 categories: reflexes: involuntary responses to stimuli produced by prewired neural connections or reflex arcs. They have the advantage of producing rapid and reliable responses, but their inflexibility is a disadvantage with environmental changes. Much of human s adaptability stems from our ability to learn learning extends only to behaviour that changes from experience, and not from short emotional bursts or maturation and growth. Associative learning - when an organism forms a connection between 2 features of its environment classical conditioning. Non associative learning - processes of habituation, sensitization, involves changes in the magnitude of responses to stimuli rather than the formation of connections between specific elements or events. Habituation : occurs when an organism reduces its response to unchanging, harmless stimuli. Sensitization occurs when repeated exposure to a strong stimuli increases response to other environmental stimuli (exaggerated movement after an earthquake to movement and shit)
