PSYC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mirror Neuron, Observational Learning, Prosocial Behavior
13 Sep 2018
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Garcia effect: flavour-aversion learning: cs: novel or distinctive flavour, --> us: (x-rays; poison; turning, ------> ur: nausea. Garcia effect experiment : home on the range: lacing sheep carcass with nonlethal poison, taste --> nausea, result: farmers and ranchers report huge drop in number of sheep killed by wolves and coyotes. How to sustain appetite: food tastes --> chemo --> nausea, (cs) maple-toff ice cream, maple-toff = "scapegoat, result: appetite at meals remains normal! Garcia effect : flavour aversion learning in classical. Thirsty rats drank : --> us = shocks or x-rays, b/n/t --> pain (ur); or b/n/t --> nausea (ur) Classical conditioning: cs --> us: john garcia: easier to lean associations that make sense for survival; they are. Latent learning: rats appear to form cognitive maps. They can learn a maze just by wandering, with no cheese to reinforce their learning: evidence of these maps is revealed once the cheese is placed somewhere in the maze.
