PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Operant Conditioning
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Learning learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience distinct form drug effects (caffeine-induced jitters are not learning) different from fatigue or illness. 3 assumptions of learning theories: responses are learned rather than innate, learning is adaptive, our experiments can uncover the laws of learning these laws will apply to animals and humans. Cs is paired with the ucs over many trials. Eventually comes to elicit a conditioned response (cr: resembles the ucr) Classical conditioning issues temporal order of presentation of cs and ucs is important greatest resistance to extinction best conditioning: cs precedes ucs (forward) o: worst conditioning: ucs precedes cs (backward) o. Most difficult to have acquisition simultaneous conditioning: cs and ucs at the same time slightly less resistance to extinction still works but not perfectly. Conditioned taste aversion if a flavour is followed by an illness experience, animals will avoid the flavour in the future.
