PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Interval Ratio, Aspirin, Radiography

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Learning: learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its experience. Distinct from: drug effects (caffeine-induced jitters are not learning, 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: the russian physiologist pavlov noted that reflexive salivation in dogs could be elicited by stimuli associated with feeding. Reflex: response that is reliably elicited by a stimulus: food elicits salivation, air puff elicits eye blink. Neutral stimulus is referred to as the conditioned stimulus (cs) Cs is paired with the ucs over many trials. Eventually comes to elicit a conditioned response (cr: resembles the ucr) Acquisition and extinction: acquisition of classical conditioning: Ucs: extinction: refers to the weakening of conditioning evident when the cs is presented repeatedly without the ucs. Spontaneous recovery: refers to the reemergence of a previously extinguished cr.

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