Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fixed Action Pattern, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Aversion Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Chapter 7 learning and adaptation: role of experience. Learning process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Behaviourists focus on how organisms learn, examining the processes by which the experience influences behaviour. Ethology focuses on the functions of behaviour: adaptive significance how behaviour influences an organism"s chances for survival o. Fixed action pattern unlearned response automatically triggered by a particular stimulus. Environment shapes behaviour in two fundamental ways: o o. Personal adaptation (behaviorists) behaviour is influenced by immediate environment and by capabilities that have been acquired through experience. Species adaptation (ethology) genetically based features that enhance a species" ability to adapt to the environment are more likely to be passed on to future generations. Classical conditioning learning to associate two stimuli such that one stimulus comes to produce a response that originally was only produced by the other stimulus.