PSYC1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Classical Conditioning, Phycology, Habituation
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In humans, habituation can be measured through the physiological responses to stress: eg: sweating, heart rate etc, habituation tries not to respond to every single stimulus because it is not energy efficient to waste resources responding. Sensitisation: responding strongly is needed for survival mechanisms such as fight or flight response. In the pavlov dog experiment, the conditions are: (ucs)unconditional stimulus: food. The stimulus that instinctively causes a reflective response: (ucr)unconditional response: salivating to the food. The reflex induced by the non-neutral stimulus: (cs)conditional stimulus: bell. The neutral stimulus that is typically should not elicit the response and is typically unlinked to the response: (cr)conditional response: salivating to the bell. The same unconditional response but now to the neutral response. Phases of conditioning: the phases undergone by the subject during the classical conditioning experiment. Inter-trial interval (iti): time between each trial of experiment.
