Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Classical Conditioning, Habituation, Digestion
10 Apr 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Learning and adaptation - the role of experience. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience, not maturation. Animals, including humans, but not plants are capable of learning. Habituation - our responses to repetitive stimuli decrease. E. g. we do not notice our clothing against our skin after a few minutes. Sensitization - stimuli that are novel or salient. As a result our attention to them increases enormously. E. g. a rustle in the bushes as we walk, increases our alertness. Primitive and reflexive (some of our behaviour reflexive - not within voluntary control - can"t inhibit sneezing) Associations between stimuli - things we"re capable of detecting. Sour example - someone eats a lemon - we salivate watching it because we have previous history of tasting lemon. Thus we have formed an association between the lemon juice and the appearance of a lemon. He was a physiologist won nobel prize for his work.
