PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spaced, Dual Process Theory, Word Stem
27 Nov 2020
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Chapter 3: habituation, sensitization, and familiarization: behavioral processes. Meeting a new person: on edge first meeting, but second and third more comfortable, sensitization. Increase reacting the more it happens: something threatening to you, ex. Although distinct, all three help adapt behaviour to predictable environments. What is habituation: a decrease in the strength or occurrence of a behaviour due to repeated exposure to the stimulus that produces the behaviour, ex. Habituation: quantification: fixation time- how long are they looking/focusing, note early strong responses, declining to later weak responses, asymptote, relatively stable point after substantial training. It is found throughout the animal kingdom: even some single-celled organisms, https://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pmc/articles/pmc2714193, across all these organisms, there are striking similarities in the way habituation works, habituation in dog training, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=ugwhbmq60rk. Topics to discuss: dishabituation, a novel/arousing stimulus can temporarily recover responses to the habituating stimulus, this fades quickly though, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=e8bf_zf6ubu.
