PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Psych
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Inborn patterns of behavior elicited by environmental stimuli. Instincts are innate patterns of behavior, elicited by environmental stimuli that do not require learning. Like re exes, instincts do not need to be learned and are in exible. However, instincts are much more complex that re exes, and are mediated by processing higher in the brain. An example of a human instinct is contagious yawning, or yawning in response to seeing others yawn. Although yawning has multiple functions, including cooling the brain, contagious yawning might be related to empathy, helping to synchronize the arousal state of whole groups. A relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that occurs due to experience. Associative learning: occurs when we form connections among stimuli and or behaviors. Unconditioned stimulus - a stimulus that naturally and reliably evokes a response (dog food) Unconditioned response - the response that is naturally and reliably elicited by the unconditioned stimulus (salivating)
