PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Apidae, Advantageous, Morris Water Navigation Task
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Describe how behaviours are acquired and extinguished through classical conditioning. Identify the ucs, cs, ucr and cr: describe the basic principles of stimulus generalization and discrimination, describe habituation, contrast contiguity and contingency, and describe the importance of these for conditioning to occur. Describe biological influences and cognitive approaches to learning: describe taste aversion, preparedness, instinctive drift and imprinting, describe the ability to navigate in the physical environment (spatial and latent learning), describer insight and observational learning. A more or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Requires some degree of permanence, but sometimes forget/lose ability. Behaviour potential: learning by observing then putting info to work later, also known as cognition. Resulting from experience, to distinguish it from developmental changes. Nativists: behavior was reflexive or due to inborn ideas. We are born the way we a(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d ou(cid:396) life e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es do(cid:374)"t do (cid:373)u(cid:272)h i(cid:374) shapi(cid:374)g our behavior (descartes)