PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Operant Conditioning, Escape Response, Fear Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Julia Wreford

Document Summary

You need to experience escape to avoid it in the future. The cs cancels or changes the presentation of the us. When you escape you"ve experienced something and you can learn from it. There is a floor that can deliver a shock, the floor is controlled by an external device. The shock triggers the animal to jump over the wall. A signal tells the occurrence of the shock ten seconds later. How long will the rat stay on the floor after the occurrence of the signal (latency) Very quick to jump after several trials, almost no latency. The tone is also turned off after the escape behaviour. Involves discrete trials, each trial is initiated by the warning stimulus or cs. If the subject makes the target response before the shock is delivered, the cs is turned off. Two way shuttle avoidance: the animal moved in different directions on subsequent trials.