PSY1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reinforcement, Eric Kandel, Operant Conditioning
31 Jul 2018
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Learning is a change in an organism"s behavior or thought as a result of experience. Non- associative learning is concerned with how a response changes in relation to a single stimulus. Eric kandel, gill and siphon withdrawal reflex, reflex is reduced to gentle touch: habituation, relex in enhanced to a noxious stimulus. The central nervous system of an aplysia is relatively simple compared to a human central nervous system and contains tens of thousands of nerve cells, compared to tens of billions of nerve cells. Compared to human nerve cells, the nerve cells in an aplysia are very large and this allows researchers to easily identify particular nerve cells that are involved in simple processes. Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning. This form of learning was proposed by ivan. Pavlov (1849 1936) who was a russian scientist and studied salivation (production of saliva) in dogs as a response to stimuli that the dogs were presented with.
