PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Habituation, Learning, Psych

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 6
• Professor: cassens

Document Summary

Different studies to determine whether infants are able to recognize faces. Habituation short term effect identified by spontaneous recovery of responding following a period without stimulation. Sensitization: a neural mechanism that increases the magnitude of responses elicited by a stimulus. Assumes that different types of underlying neural processes are responsible for increases and decreases in responsiveness to stimulation. Habituation is a universal feature of elicited behavior. Habituation and sensitization of emotions and motivated behavior. Learning association between 2 or more events such that an individual could predict one event based on the occurrence of another. Governs a large part of our behavior. The primary reaction becomes weaker or habituates with repeated stimulations. The weakening of the primary reaction with repetition is accompanied by a strengthening of the after-reaction. A process elicits b process that generates opposite emotional respon. Could be less obvious, learned where to find food, etc.