Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Covert Conditioning, Tylenol (Brand), Social Learning Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

The changes in behaviour that accumulate across generations are stored in genes. The changes in behaviour that accumulate over a lifetime are stored in the central nervous system. Argued that: unobservable phenomenon aren"t necessary for an understanding of human nature. Learning occurs when you recognize that one even predicts the other. Learned stimulus (any stimulus you"ve learned to respond to) Food poisoning after fish, fish becomes learned stimulus. Salivation in response to object paired with food. Fear as a response to a situation paired with pain. Acquisition: the original learning of cs period during which a response is learnt. Weakening of cr by presenting the cs (bell) without the ucs (food) = lose of cr. Cr will reappear if time has passed since extinction. Neutral stimuli similar to cs may elicit cr. Differences between stimuli only get cr to the cs not to the other stimuli. Birds are easier to cs where rats are easier to train with taste.