PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Headache, Tylenol (Brand), Nicotine
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3/18: kittens were put into the testing chamber when they were 6 months old. Then moved into testing chamber and placed with a different rat. Experiment founded that it was both nature and nurture. Learning is a process of relatively permanent change that occurs as a result of an organism"s experience (or practice). Definition: o a form of learning that consists of the establishment of a conditioned or learned reflex. Cs + us -----> ur bell + food ----> salivation bell (all by itself) -------> salivation (cr) Examples/applications of classical conditioning: taste aversion learning. Eating it once, it was bad and now it causes the body to not want to eat it anymore. Evening meal then chemotherapy which leads to nausea. Evening meal then lifesaver, then chemotherapy which leads. Taste aversion: implications in the treatment of cancer to nausea. Both animals and humans undergo taste aversion learning: conditioned fear - running feet.
