Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mental Event, Lab Report, Traffic Ticket
18 Jan 2017
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Chapter 6. 1: learning and adaption: role of experience. Relatively permanent change in behaviour as the result of experience, non maturation (ex. puberty) Our responses to repetitive stimuli decrease: ex. Don"t notice clothing against body after a few minutes. Our responses to novel or salient stimuli increases: ex. Someone else eats a lemon and you react to it. With experience the sight of a lemon can create salivation. Through life we have formed an association between lemon juice and the appearance of a lemon. Putting food on dog"s tongue and with experience just the sight of food caused salivation. Periodically a tone then to a shock through the floor. The lever pressing is suppressed during the tone. A stimulus that produced a reflexive response: ex. Reflexive reponse to the us: ex. Neutral stimulus that does not create the ur: ex. Reflexive response to the cs that often resembles the ur: but always a lesser version than the ur, ex.
