PSY 105 Lecture 5: CHAPTER 5 Learning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Genevieve Quintin

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Learning: some experience that results in a relatively long-lasting change in the state of the learning can occur with awareness (explicit learning) or without awareness (implicit learning) can be non-associative or associative. Habituation: a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding: a form of non-associative learning is in part of the result of depleted neurotransmitter. Neural plasticity: the nervous system"s ability to change: a. Growth of dendrites and axons: b. synaptogenesis, d. during learning: long term potentiation (ltp, pruning. Examples: watching others (observational learning, rewards (operant conditioning, making connections (classical conditioning) When a neural stimulus leads to a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally leads to a response: example: loud noise whenever a light is turned on, air gun and that was easy example. Basics of classical conditioning initially something (lets call it the cs) causes no reaction.