PSYC 41043 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paramecium, James V Of Scotland, Discrimination Learning

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 41043
• Professor: Stephen B Fountain

Document Summary

The appeal of learning: any organism with a nervous system has learned, we can study the tiniest amounts of learning in the simplest organisms. They have tentacles that direct food particles into their mouths: has a sophisticated network of nerves that coordinate their behavior and movements, does not have a centralized brain. Importance of learning for animals in general contd. If something does not have a nervous system, it does not learn. What is learning: learning (defined by text): learning is an enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involved specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses. Other sources of behavior change: learning is not a change in behavior due to, maturation, this is just growing and normal progression through life that is to be expected, this follows the normal expectations of development.