HLTHAGE 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Foodborne Illness, Classical Conditioning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2GG3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

It is hard to explain it using classical conditioning which requires repeated interactions. Perceptual learning: this is learning to recognize a particular object, what is it do you sense and recognize it. Stimulus response learning: learning to automatically make a response in the presence of a particular stimulus, we form associations between things in the environment. It is the ability to learn to perform a behavior when a stimulus is present. Involves the establishment of connections between circuits involved in perception and those involved in movement: the response that occurs is usually in some form of movement whether internal or external. Neural model of classical conditioning: all of this is related to the hebb rule. If a synapse repeatedly becomes active at about the same time that the postsynaptic neurons fires, changes will take place in the structure and chemistry of the synapse that strengthens it.