PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Sensory System
23 Nov 2016
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Learning: relatively enduring change in behaviour due to experience. We learn from experience who studied reflexive responses associate with cues. Watson, who studied prediction and control of behaviour. Skinner, who studied prediction and precise control of behaviour. Habitual: decrease in behavioral responding to a repeated stimulus i. e. putting on clothing; tactile response of putting on clothing. Sensitization: increase in behavioural responding to a repeated stimulus. i. e. watching a scary movie, heightened sensory system. Associative learning: how two or more pieces of information are related. Classical conditioning: learn that two stimuli going together. Operant conditioning: learn that a behaviour leads to a particular outcome. Voluntary behaviour that results in a certain outcome. Long-term potentiation (ltp): the strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons. Our body wants to maintain a homeostatic state; our body will perform reflexive action to maintain this state through classical conditioning. Unconditional stimulus (stimulation of receptor in mouth by food or dilute acid)
