PSY 12000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Relate, Adderall, Immune System
16 Aug 2018
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Chapter 7: learning about events: noticing and ignoring, define habituation and sensitization, describing the function of each. Habituation: the decline in the tendency to respond to an event that has become familiar through repeated exposure. Organisms learn to be selective about their reactions. They attend initially to the new and unusual but subsequently ignore events that occur repeatedly without consequence. Sensitization: increased responsiveness, or sensitivity to an event that has been repeated. Classical conditioning: a set f procedures used to investigate how organisms learn about the signaling properties of events. How is it similar: how does punishment differ from reinforcement? i. Consciousness is the subjective awareness of internal and external events. Situations in which the processes of consciousness apply: We are constantly making decisions about which events we are going to attend which we are not. Internal processes used to set priorities for mental functioning. Brain can only process so much information at one time.
