PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Frontal Lobe, Classical Conditioning, Learning
Document Summary
Habituation: decrease in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. Associative learning: how two or more pieces of info are related. Classical conditioning: learn that a behaviour leads to a particular outcome. Operant conditioning: learn that a behaviour leads to a particular outcome. Long-term potentiation (ltp): the strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons. Why were relapse rates so low in returning. They take the same dose as they did on numerous occasions o. Plays a huge role in classical conditioning o. Vast majority of responses to classical conditioning is because your body is trying to maintain homeostasis. Biology and environment -> drugs and together it changes the code in the brain, causing addiction. Functional changes in the addicted brain affects future choice of behaviours o. Someone who is addicted has less activity in their frontal lobe.
