PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement

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

Document Summary

A more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Blinks a lot, and blocks after name is spoken > not a contingency. Eyes open, smiled after you mention her husband > contingency. Unconditioned stimulus (meat) > unconditioned response, salivating. Conditioned taste aversion neutral stimulus (bell) > meat > salivating. Eating food that makes you sick, will make you not want the food anymore. The food has become a conditioned stimulus for nausea. Cat in a box, how long it takes for the cat to find the fish. Responses that produces a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation. Responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation. Operant response: any behavioural response that has an effect on the environment (lever press) Stops smiling (negative punishment) (cid:862)a (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) (cid:271)ehaviour that results fro(cid:373) experie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) Dog will only salivate when 500hz rings.