PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Triune Brain, Hindbrain, Operant Conditioning
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Inflexible patterns of behaviour are inherited and are biological: such behaviour is referred to as instinctive or reflexive. Sometimes referred to as fixed action patterns - fully functional at birth (e. g. nest building spider) Imprinting : put in a isolation then first moving object they see; they will imprint on. Learning : a relatively permanent change in behaviour or knowledge due to experience (i. e. not maturation or aging) Situational determinants of personality and acquired long-term habits. The triune brain: the hindbrain, paleo-mammalian, neo-mammalian. Definitions (ivan pavlov: the standard model , timing and classical conditioning. Generalization and discrimination: generalization gradient, little albert (1920) - john watson (conditioned emotional response, discrimination (opposite of generalization) Phases of learning: acquisition, extinction (repeatedly present cs without ucs, spontaneous recovery. Higher order conditioning: pavlov used this idea to explain more complex learning. Operant conditioning: respondent vs. operant learning, thorndike"s puzzle boxes, reinforcement and punishment, shaping, schedules of reinforcements, superstitious conditioning.
