PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Semi-Trailer Truck, Sensory Cue, Dishabituation
27 Apr 2018
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Week 6 (Learning & Conditioning)
Test your brain:
- What is worth more, a pound of $10 gold coins or half a pound of $20 coins? Or would they be
worth the same?
- It depends on the weight differences of the two coins. If they weigh the same the value
would be the same, but whichever weight per coin is less the coin of the respective
value will be worth the same
Conditioning vs learning
- Conditioning is reinforcement
- Learning is an involuntary responses gained from experiences
Learning:
- Chage i a orgais’s behaviour or thought as a result of practice, study or experience
- Lasting change
3 assumptions of learning theories
- Learning is adaptive
- It can change over time
- Responses are learned rather than enate (natural from birth)
- Some things are enate, such as flinching/fright responses
- There are laws of learning
- We can discover theories about learning, but there are theories
Two types of learning
- Non-associative **
- Learning that does not involve forming associations between stimuli. It is change
resulting from experiences with a single sensory cue
- associative
Non-associative learning
- Habituation (habitat -> get used to your surroundings)
- Weakening of response to a stimulus after repeated presentation
- Sensitization
- A strong stimulus results in an exaggerated response to the subsequent presentation of
weaker stimuli
- The linking of two items
- A large real life big rig to a toy big rig
- Dishabituation (learned response goes into hibernation)
- Recovery of attention to a novel stimulus following habitation
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Document Summary
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