PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Latent Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Vending Machine

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Learning: a more-or-less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential (knowledge coming back in fracture of a time as learning it after not practicing) that results from experience. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs) - the stimulus that evoked the behavioural response of interest; elicits a behaviour prior to any learning (e. g. food) Unconditioned response (ucr) - the reflexive response to the presentation of unconditioned stimulus (e. g. salivating) Neutral stimulus - stimulus that doesn"t elicit the response of interest (e. g. bell) Conditioned stimulus (cs) - a stimulus that initially evokes no response, but after conditioning, now evokes a response (e. g. buzzer) Ucr - causing us to feel hungry. Cr - pairing the logo with people eating produces a feeling of hunger. Acquisition - in classical conditioning, the time during which a cr first appears and increases in frequency and intensity, becoming more and more like the ucr.