PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tabula Rasa, Feed Dogs, Foodborne Illness
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Focused on how organisms learn and their observable behaviours. Examined processes by which experience influences behaviour. Discovered laws of learning that apply to virtually all organisms. Explained learning in terms of observable events. Did not, at first, recognize cognition as an important aspect of behaviour. Learning is a product of events that occur in our environment. Pavlov studied salivary responses in dogs, recognized that salvation increased when they came in to feed dogs, became curious how tone became associated with the natural response to food. Based on internal respondents to naturally occurring stimuli. When we pair things that do not initially evoke a natural response with something that does, the initially value free variable becomes valued through association. Ie: snapping an elastic on yourself does not naturally evoke a response, however, doing so whenever you think of smoking can help associate smoking with pain. Cs (tone) occurs shortly before ucs (food) is presented.
