PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Toilet Paper, Classical Conditioning

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Learning: refers to an enduring change in way an organism responds based on its experience. Fatigue or illness: three assumptions of learning theories. Our experiments can uncover the laws of learning. These laws will apply to animals and to humans: classical conditioning. Physiologist ivan pavlov noted reflexive salivation in dogs could be elicited by stimuli associated w/ feeding. Reflex: response that is reliably elicited by a stimulus. Neutral stimulus is referred to as the conditioned stimulus (cs) Cs is paired w/ the ucs over many trials. Eventually comes to elicit a conditioned response (cr: resembles the ucr) Number of times till neutral stimulus and unconditioned response become controlled stimulus and conditioned response. Done in manner of brainwashing - not in best interest. Toilet paper and baby animals w/ the biggest eyes. Beer and swedish blonde models: acquisition and extinction. Extinction: refers to the weakening of conditioning evident when the cs is presented repeatedly w/out the ucs.