PSY 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Premotor Cortex, Mirror Neuron

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3103
• Professor: Catherine Plowright

Document Summary

Three ways in which x can come to behave in the same way as y (experimentation is necessary to uncover the mechanisms underlying behaviour): demonstrator had created conditions under which observers learn in demonstrators absence. This can be seen in the cultural transmission of behaviours. Example: chickadees learn to pick through milk tins to eat the cream. This was done through both simply eating from an open cream tub (then learning how to do it by themselves later) or from seeing a demonstration. The na ve chickadee was unable to open the tub upon the first presentation: demonstrator"s actions associated with stimuli around it observational conditioning. If the demonstrator shows an unconditioned fear to a conditioned stimulus then the observer develops an unconditioned response. This can also be seen if parents show disgust for a food then their child will as well.