PSY260H1 Lecture Notes - Ice Cream Van, Eyeblink Conditioning, Drug Tolerance
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Involves learning to anticipate a (+)ve or (-)ve event so it can be prepared for. Pavlov"s dogs salivated at sound of bell. Unconditioned stimulus (us): cue that has some biological significance & in the absence of prior training naturally evokes a response. Unconditioned response (ur): naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus: more reflexive. Conditioned stimulus (cs): cue that is paired w an unconditioned stimulus (us) and comes to elicit a conditioned response (cr: most likely used to be a neutral stimulus. Conditioned response (cr): trained response to a conditioned stimulus (cs) in anticipation of the unconditioned stimulus (us) that it predicts: more anticipatory. Cr: now salivates in anticipation of food, whether or not it"s coming. 1) us ur (food salivation) 2) ns + us ur (bell + food salivation) 3) cs cr (bell salivation) Conditioning is not species- or age-specific: many ages & species have this.
