PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Martin Seligman, Piggy Bank
9 Feb 2017
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Learning issues and applications of classical conditioning. Taste aversion learning john garcia: exposed rates to flavoured water and bright noisy water, exposed rats to x-rays gastrointestinal disturbance + nausea, tested drinking of the two waters after x-ray exposure, control experiment with foot shock. Flavour illness associations (linda parker: conditioned taste avoidance. Avoiding check consumption do(cid:374)"t seek it, do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t it, do(cid:374)"t go (cid:374)ear it: conditioned disgust gaping. Measure by recording facial reactions when the taste is inserted in the mouth what happens when that stuff is in your mouth. 2: taste reactivity test measure conditioned disgust. Flavoured solution = cs, sucrose tongue protrusions (tongue comes out to lick more) Present cs and measure cr , sucrose -> gapes. Animals/humans seem prepared to associate some cs-us combinations more readily than others. Such preparedness is defined by the amount of inputs (# of trails) that are necessary to develop a reliable output (responses)
