PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Reinforcement, Piece Work, Systematic Desensitization
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A relatively permanent change in observable behaviour the results from experience with the environment. A relatively permanent change in the part of the nervous system that underlies an observable behaviour that results from experience with the environment -> definition preferred by prof. Can only draw conclusions about what is asked. Damage, injury changes behaviour but isn"t learning. Developmental maturation is also excluded from the definition of learning. Is learning not to respond to an unimportant event that occurs repeatedly. A non-associative form of learning: same stimulus over and over again that is leading to the change in behaviour. Eric kandel started working on mechanisms of learning. Had to take a reductionist approach, one cell at a time to understand the brain. Have to use a model to help study the brain since humans have trillion neurons & too difficult to map. So kandel studied the neural system of aplysia, a sea hare/slug with very large nerve cells (20,000 neurons)
