BIOL 1F25 Lecture Notes - Learning, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
19 May 2013
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Memory: storage and retrieval of information over time. Learning is a major vehicle for behavioral adaptation; studies of learning are important for both normal and abnormal behaviors. Non-associative (simple forms of learning): animal/person learns about the properties of one stimulus. Associative (higher form of learning): animal/person learns about relationship between two stimuli and/or a stimulus and its behavior. Claims of no medical breakthroughs as a direct result of animal experimentation. Animal research provides basic scientific knowledge that is a requirement for medical breakthroughs. All animal research is strictly controlled; brock university animal care committee; canadian. Council on animal care (ccac) since 1968; controls care and use of animals for research. Animal exposed once or repeatedly to a single stimulus; animal learns properties of that stimulus. >sensitization; increase response following an intense or painful stimulus. Results from touch to either mantle, siphon and gill. Habituation of reflex: behavioral response becomes reduced with repeated stimulations.
