PSYC 2330 Lecture 6: Learning – Feb 13th to 17th

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Smoking area is a stimulus for someone who smokes there. Nicotine has ability of getting to brain censors and activate them and activate them if they are a biological reinforcer. Is it the drug or the feeling of the drug: reinforcing stimuli. Needed or survival, food, water, sex . Drugs that mimic the effects of food, water and sex in the brain match chemical in the brain. Sensory stimulation and novelty novel sensory stimulation, ** important** how society uses these arguments if a pig wants to be outside it will press its head against the window. A previous neutral stimulus that acquired the capacity to strengthen stimulus response associations because it has been repeatedly paired with food or some other primary reinforcer. Stimuli whose reinforcing properties derive uniquely from the behaviour of other members of the same species praise, affection, attention, they are usually a blend of primary and secondary reinforcers: conditioned reinforcers and shaping.