NROC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Amygdala, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Orbitofrontal Cortex
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Incentive theory believes that external goes motivates behaviour: doesn"t take intrinsic motivators into account. Final thoughts: things that reinforce behaviour doesn"t vary much across species, many species still enjoy sex, social interaction, food, and alcohol. Adaptive significance: there must be an adaptive reasoning for why we can conditioned this way, helps us prepare for upcoming event, three upcoming events that they supposedly help prepare for. Signal for fearful events: fear-associated cues allow animals to prepare for dangerous encounters, rats freeze when they are approached by a predator (info from smell/sound) Excitatory conditioning: excitatory conditioning occurs when cs signals the presence of the us (unconditioned stimulus) and so you respond in he appropriate way, can be appetitive or aversive. Inhibitory conditioning is when the cs signals the absence of the us. Jan. 12, 2017: if it takes longer to positively predict reward, it was previously inhibitory. Stimulus-stimulus vs. stimulus-response: scientists want to know if pavlovian conditioning is the association of the.