PSY100H1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 (Learning and Reward)
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It used to be that monkeys/chimpanzees were smartest after humans, but now it may be dogs. def: learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism s based on its experience (exempt: drug effects this is how we respond to this stimulant, fatigue, or illness) behaviourists said that we are tabula rasa (blank slate) when we are born. we are all born with predispositions (i. e. to be creative, develop cancer, personality, science is based on empirical data, so it must be verifiable and quantitative. 3 assumptions: responses are learned rather than innate. just about everybody knows how to throw their arms back when falling as a toddler. everyone has a suck reflex, those that don"t will not survive: learning is adaptive. learning helps us solve problems, create, explore: our experiments can uncover the laws of learning. this is true, discovered through experiments with animals (no.
