PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Foodborne Illness, Operant Conditioning
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Acquisition & conditioning: extinction: end of response, spontaneous recovery (likely but not guaranteed): reemergence of conditioned response, almost all advertising is based on classical conditioning, however it needs to be unconscious other wise we won"t buy the product. Metalearning: learning how to learn better: stimulus generalization: if the dog salivates to any similar neutral stimulus ex. Phone ringing: stimulus discrimination: if the dog reacts primarily to that specific neutral stimulus. Classical conditioning issues: best conditioning is forward conditioning: when the conditioned stimulus comes before the unconditioned stimulus, worst conditioning is backwards conditioning: when the unconditioned stimulus comes before the conditioned stimulus ex. You taser the subject (ucs) and then shine the flashlight (cs) in their eyes. Conditioned taste aversion: cs + ucs = ucr. Taste + toxic event = nausea: cs = cr. Flavour = nausea: taste aversions will occur to a novel taste or flavour rather than staples ex.
