PSYC 205 Lecture 4: Chapter-4-associative-processes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 205
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

Document Summary

Male quail prefer females that are the same colour as those that they copulated with in the past: these cues may also affect physiological responses: testosterone levels are elevated and more sperm is released during copulation. Domjan (2002): sexual behaviour is influenced by so many different factors- without it, no species would survive. Ebbinghaus used himself as a subject and presented a series of associative laws explaining how memories are formed. Ivan pavlov, a russian physiologist won a nobel prize for his work on the digestive system of dogs, known today for his work on conditioning a form of associative learning. Classical conditioning- describes a predictive relationship between a neutral and motivationally significant stimulus. Stimuli that do not initially elicit a response may acquire the ability to do so through association with motivationally significant events. Studies began with pavlov"s work with conditioned reflexes. Prior to conditioning the us elicits the ur (unconditioned reflex)